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

And their findings are stark: aridity is now affecting 40% of the world's agricultural land and 2.3 billion people, causing ...

Climate change is accelerating this trend. New research has found global warming has made 77 percent of the Earth’s land drier over the past three decades while rapidly increasing the proportion ...

Healthy soil is vital for water and food supply. But much fertile land is heavily degraded and turning to desert. Over the ...

The data coincides with Cop16 talks on desertification held in Saudi Arabia until Friday. Dry land now covers around 40 ...

From the American West to eastern China, more than three-quarters of Earth’s land became persistently drier in recent decades ...

But much fertile land is heavily degraded and turning to desert. Over the past two weeks, nations have been gathered in ...

NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are preparing to launch the NISAR satellite in March 2025. NISAR, ...