Munich, Germany, 16 February, 2025 – As global leaders convene at the Munich Security Conference 2025 (MSC2025) to address pressing security challenges, land restoration is emerging as a crucial ...

Global food systems are responsible for 80% of the world’s deforestation, 70% of freshwater use, and contribute to 40% of the planet’s degraded land, according to the latest report by the U.N.’s ...

The story so far: Humans have breached four out of nine planetary boundaries, the second edition of the Global Land Outlook report, published on April 27, 2022, has reported. It was prepared by the ...

Land degradation – the deterioration or loss of the productive capacity of land – is progressing at an alarming rate. Globally, over a fifth of the total land area has already been degraded, causing ...

Drylands are one of the world’s largest land types, covering nearly half of the earth’s land surface. Comprised of arid and semi-arid regions, drylands include true deserts like the Sahara, as well as ...

Since the 1950s, large-farm abandonment has been occurring in many economically developed nations as well as some economically developing countries. Currently, there are an estimated 950 million to ...

An expansive project led by Michigan State University's Lars Brudvig is examining the benefits, and limits, of environmental restoration on developed land after humans are done with it. Experts ...

Today's generation is surprised when told about how fog covered the whole of Kathmandu during winter in the Seventies, which made visibility extremely poor. The city's population in 1980 was around ...