RED ROCK – All around Picacho Peak, the Sonoran Desert is brown and dry and rough. The soles of your feet could not tell the desert hardpan from an asphalt road. About 2,500 feet above the ground, ...

While desertification is considered a permanent state, reversing desertification is possible with extraordinary measures. Restoring 1 billion hectares would reduce poverty and hunger and enhance ...

Human security is under threat from desertification, land degradation and drought. Combating this threat requires an integrated international response, which is why the theme for this year's World Day ...

Reversing desertification requires money, machinery and intelligent planning from industrialized nations as humanitarian aid. We cannot expect to reverse the trends just by passing laws that people ...

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (23 September 2009)—As climate change negotiators continue to skirt the role of agricultural land use in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, top scientists working on land ...

NAIROBI/DURBAN, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From South Africa, where unprecedented floods this month washed away farmland, to the excessive logging of Kenya's mountain forests, Africa is ...

Pursuant to the provisions of the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit of Sustainable Development (JPOI) and based on the recommendations of the 11th Session of the Commission of Sustainable ...