New York (Agenzia Fides) – Today is the World Day to Combat Desertification, as indicated by the United Nations, with the theme: “Combating Land Degradation for Sustainable Agriculture.” In 1994, the ...

ISLAMABAD: Increasing desertification is turning vast swatches of fertile land into parched areas and poses a risk to the global environmental sustainability. It is also creating socio-economic ...

Researchers have measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and which now ...

ISLAMABAD: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought will be marked on June 17 (Friday) across the globe including Pakistan to curb the desertification process and strengthen the visibility of ...

(Ana Paula Cunha, Researcher// National Disaster Alerts and Monitoring Center) “That area we’ve identified of 5,000 square kilometres (1,930 miles) will grow to 15,000 square kilometres (5,791 square ...

RAWALPINDI, June 16: Desertification has affected 43 million hectares of land and out of the total land area of 79.6 million hectares, only 16 million hectares are suitable for irrigated farming in ...

Ecologistas en Acción opines that it is essential to take measures to avoid sealing fertile ground due to unsustainable town-planning growth and construction of new infrastructures - especially in ...

Nearly half of the Caatinga, the only exclusively Brazilian biome, has been destroyed and 13% of its territory has already been lost to desertification. A project at Rio Grande do Norte Federal ...

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought this year is focusing on the current commitment by over 100 countries to restore almost 100 hectares of land over the next decade. The World Day to ...