A UN summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, hopes to address global desertification - once-fertile lands turning arid. View on ...

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

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

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

Earth’s major carbon sinks are nearing their limits, signaling that natural processes may soon be unable to compensate for ...

Aridity, an "existential crisis" reshaping life on Earth, could impact five billion people by 2100. Dramatic water-related ...

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

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

We’ve found that the best way to quickly complete the quest is to land at the Earth Sprite to the east of Masked Meadows or ...

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

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 ...