Today's generation is surprised when told about how fog covered the whole of Kathmandu during winter in the Seventies, which made visibility extremely poor. The city's population in 1980 was around ...

Desertification is happening all around the world. According to the "World Atlas of Desertification" released by the European Commission, desertification is underway in 75 percent of the Earth's land ...

Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement, which has planted millions of trees, passed away on 25th September 2011. The first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, she ...

‘Massive’ £200bn increase in funds needed to stop land around world turning to dust, UN warns - Exclusive: Some £260bn is ...

Nearly 800 million people are chronically undernourished as a direct consequence of land degradation, declining soil, fertility, unsustainable water use, drought and biodiversity loss, requiring ...

Employees install photovoltaic panels at a new energy base in Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on June 6. LI ZHIPENG/XINHUA At the Longtouguai section of Xiliugou, engineers have installed ...

China has found workable solutions to desertification, as shown by successful projects like Saihanba National Forest Park, which is important for China and the rest of the world, according the UN's ...

New York / Wadi Halfa — On June 4, hundreds of residents of Wadi Halfa, Northern State, blocked all major entrances to the town, preventing trucks from passing. The protesters told Radio Dabanga that ...