While the Sahara Desert is an important ecosystem in its own right, its human neighbors in the Sahel would like it to stop encroaching on their environment. [Andrew Millison] took a look at how the ...

When I told Sadhguru — the Indian yogi, mystic, and founder of Conscious Planet and the Isha Foundation — that I was from Barbados, his eyes lit up. “My first pitch was in the Caribbean,” he said, ...

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YINCHUAN, 26 February (BelTA - Xinhua) - Scientists in northwestern China are releasing soil "seed" into arid desert areas to form artificial biological soil crusts, as part of efforts to stabilize ...

Bhutan, known for its strong environmental conservation, is facing growing challenges from degradation due to soil erosion, ...

Desertification is a land degradation process in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid regions driven by complex interactions among climate variability, anthropogenic pressure, and ecosystem sensitivity.

This week marked the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, highlighting the importance of accelerating progress to restore 1.5 billion hectares of degraded land around the world. The IAEA ...

From the rugged mountains of Khyber to the lush valleys of Kohistan, and from Chitral to Dera Ismail Khan, a province-wide spring plantation drive is quietly taking root across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ...

Scientists looking for ways to grow crops in desert soil have landed on a surprising solution: pineapples. By adding relatively small amounts of pineapple fibers to sandy soil, researchers were able ...

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State Key Laboratory of Soil and Water Conservation and Desertification Control, NWAFU has the following research output in the current window (1 December 2024 - 30 November 2025) of the Nature Index.