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, ...

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

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

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

BEIJING -- China has revealed an action plan to strengthen the prevention and control of sources of soil pollution from now ...

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).

Phosphorus, a nutrient in soil essential for sustaining most forms of life, is increasingly disappearing from land as it is washed into waterways throughout the United States, according to a new study ...

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

LAND acts as the primary source of food. More than eight billion people still draw 99.9 per cent of food from land. Out of ...

National Pollution Control Day is commemorated in honour of those who perished in the Bhopal Gas tragedy on December 2, 1984.

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