A meta-analysis published in the September 2004 issue of BioScience concludes that desertification is driven by a limited group of core variables, most prominently climatic factors that lead to ...
The February 2005 issue of BioScience, the monthly journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), includes a new assessment of rapid land-cover change around the world over the ...
Teaching Fellow in International Relations and East Asia, University of Warwick Creeping desertification in China is swallowing thousands of square kilometres of productive soil every year. It’s a ...
Scientists issue worrying warning about the world's cropland: 'It's already here, and deteriorating'
We already know that in a world being heated up by air pollution, dry climates get even drier and droughts get more severe. What you may not realize is that there can be long-term changes to the ...
Before and after images demonstrate the progress made in China's desertification control in recent years. The normalized difference vegetation index in the bottom lefthand corner of each image shows ...
Life in the Sahel, a semi-arid region of Africa stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, is at threat from persistent degradation of land as the increasing population inflicts ever-greater ...
In production agriculture, the sense of gravity is a familiar theme in many ways. Seeds are “dropped” from a planter into the ground. Harvested grain is elevated up, and then gravity takes over for it ...
In what is being heralded as the most comprehensive study on livestock’s contribution to global warming to date, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) once again pins the lion’s share of ...
A meta-analysis published in the September 2004 issue of BioScience concludes that desertification is driven by a limited group of core variables, most prominently climatic factors that lead to ...
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