While water erosion continues to be the most serious cause of soil degradation globally, innovative strategies that remediate important soil functions can restore the productivity of eroded soils.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to tackle soil degradation in Thailand was signed recently as 33% of the country’s soil ...

A new global think tank is warning soil degradation is increasing and threatening food security and biodiversity. Soil is like the earth's skin — a protective layer that makes up a complex ...

Photograph by Shutterstock Soil degradation, where soil loses the physical, chemical, or biological qualities that support life, is a natural process but it is being accelerated by human activity.

This has come at the expense of nature, causing 80% of deforestation and 70% of biodiversity loss on land. Soil degradation has reduced the productivity of nearly a quarter of the global land surface, ...

"Neglecting [it] risks pushing humanity beyond its safe operating space." Scientists sound alarm over rapidly growing threat ...

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) at its COP-16 meeting held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, recently ...

Last month at COP16 in Riyad, world leaders and experts discussed initiatives on how to tackle the global fight against drought and desertification.

A large proportion of the vegetables consumed in Québec are grown in the Montérégie region in what are known as organic soils ...

Agriculture uses roughly 70% of global freshwater, land and soil degradation are directly undermining agri-food systems with human-induced degradation The first International Soil and Water Forum ...