Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in lasting damage to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stocks, as well as to the ...

The world's topsoil is disappearing at an alarming rate, threatening agriculture. Regenerative farming offers solutions.

There is a quiet contradiction at the heart of Bangladesh. It is a country defined by fertile land—built by rivers, sustained ...

The global food system is at a critical juncture; facing issues like soil degradation, climate risk, and biodiversity ...

COP30 was expected to be a nature and implementation summit, but the negotiations in Belém have revealed a deeper structural tension. Implementation and finance may headline the agenda, but a deeper ...

Experts are warning of a looming increase in grocery prices as agricultural soil becomes increasingly unproductive. In a concerning trend that could impact households across the globe, the combination ...

Tajikistan ranks among the world’s most vulnerable countries to land degradation, according to a November report from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Nearly 70 percent of the country ...

ROME, Dec 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 ...