This historical experience and perhaps the present-day drought of biblical proportions in Australia should alert international policymakers to the risks to world agriculture of a hotter and drier ...

Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme ...

Decades of unsustainable agriculture have depleted soils worldwide and accelerated both global warming and species loss, according to the United Nations (UN) official spearheading efforts to ...

Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for ...

The global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is now almost certainly out of reach.

A new study reveals surprising insights and offers perspectives on how we might mitigate our carbon footprint without holding ...