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Dec 11, 2024, United Nations

The Guardian

Global food production at increased risk from excess salt in soil, UN report warns

Scientists say climate crisis and poor agricultural practices to blame with serious implications for crop yields

The extent of the world’s land affected by excess salt is set to increase rapidly with potentially devastating impacts on food production, research has found.

About 1.4bn hectares (3.4bn acres), amounting to 10% of global land, is affected by salinity, with a further 1bn hectares classed as “at risk”, a report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has found.

Dec 10, 2024, Hungary

agrarszektor

One by one, these areas are being destroyed: the problem is much bigger than we thought

Over the past three decades, the proportion of arid areas on Earth has increased significantly, with serious economic and environmental consequences. According to a new UN study, 40% of the world's land area is already classified as dry, and this proportion is expected to increase further in the future. 

Dec 10, 2024, Poland

N1

Worrying fact: dry areas already make up almost half of the land

According to the latest research conducted by scientists under the auspices of the United Nations, dry areas, excluding Antarctica, already make up 40 percent of the land. In 2020, 2.3 billion people were already living in arid areas.

Dec 9, 2024, Namibia

The Guardian

Drylands now make up 40% of land on Earth, excluding Antarctica, study says

An area of land nearly a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to dryland – arid areas where agriculture is difficult – in the past three decades, research has found.

Dec 6, 2024, England

OnetZeilony

Mycelium transplantation as a rescue for forests. New discovery by scientists

A British scientific experiment has made a breakthrough discovery that could change the face of environmental protection. Moving mycelium-borne soil from mature forests to areas of new afforestation showed that fungi play an essential role in improving soil health and strengthening young ecosystems.

Dec 5, 2024, Riyadh

Maaal

New policy brief presented at COP16 designed to divert world away from 90% global topsoil degradation

60 leading NGOs have joined forces to endorse a major policy brief to be presented at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP 16 in Riyadh (2nd -13th Dec).

Authored by Save Soil and 4per1000, the policy brief calls on the UNCCD to expand their areas of action to support farmers in restoring land and soil health across the globe, given the escalating soil degradation crisis—costing the planet 24 billion tons of fertile soil annually and impacting the livelihoods of 1.5 billion people.