More than 700 million hectares of land in Africa has been degraded by human activity. Everyone can get involved in restoring the ecology.

With land degradation entering the global conversation around sustainability, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP16 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aims to advance the ...

Why is land degradation concerning? According to the report, land ecosystems absorb much less carbon dioxide pollution than they used to because of unsustainable resource extraction.

Soil salinity, a form of land degradation, affects over 1 billion hectares globally, compromising agricultural productivity and environmental health.

Swift action must be taken to address human-caused land-system change and land degradation, which is now having wide ranging impacts on planetary health and human health, according to a first of ...

In the journal Nature, 21 leading scientists prescribe ways to use food systems to halt and reverse land degradation, underlining that doing so must become a top global priority to mitigate ...