Healthy soil is vital for water and food supply. But much fertile land is heavily degraded and turning to desert. Over the past two weeks, nations have been gathered in Saudia Arabia to discuss how to ...

The global economy could lose $23 trillion by 2050 due to land degradation, though halting this trend would cost $4.6 ...

The UN report comes as world leaders meet in Saudi Arabia for the agency's COP16 conference on land desertification.

Les trois quarts de la planète ont connu un climat plus sec ces trente dernières années, affectant déjà plus de 2 milliards ...

Valerie Hickey, global director of the World Bank Environment Department, speaks during a side event of the 16th ...

Gazing at the goji berries in his hands Ibrahim Thiaw executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat ...

While delegates at UNCCD COP16 hope that this could be the convention’s Paris moment, this hedges on the parties’ seriousness ...

Drought, desertification and land degradation are in focus this week at the United Nation’s COP16 conference in Saudi Arabia.

The interface between science and policy has supported China in leading global desertification control efforts in the decades ...

Saudi Arabia is hosting the United Nations Cop16 conference on desertification this week, with the world's top oil exporter ...

Ibrahim Thiaw (R), executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is presented with ...