Cleaning up contaminated land is a struggle. Meet some of the community leaders who are taking matters into their own hands.

The planetary boundaries define nine critical thresholds essential for maintaining the Earth’s stability. How humanity uses or abuses land directly impacts seven of these, including climate change, ...

Currently, land degradation disrupts food security, drives migration, and fuels conflicts. The global area affected by land ...

We depend on soil for food, fiber and medicine. Soil acts as an engineering medium, a habitat for soil organisms, a recycling ...

By looking at how it is represented in works of fiction, we can try to understand how we relate to soil. And through soil, ...

The 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification begins in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, marking the convention's 30th anniversary.

A major new scientific report was launched December 1, a day ahead of the opening of the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP16).

Since 2001, the Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies, housed in the Larson Transportation Institute in the Penn State ...

Countries negotiating a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution concluded their fifth session in the small hours of ...

National Pollution Control Day is observed in memory of those who lost their lives in the Bhopal Gas tragedy on 2nd 1984.

According to UNCCD, land degradation is “the reduction or loss of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of ...