India has reported that its forest and tree cover now encompasses 25.17% of its geographical area at the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), while highlighting several national conservation ...

An international research team has developed the world's first 30-meter resolution dataset to track changes in land productivity, a crucial tool for fighting global land degradation. Published in ...

Only 30% of Punjab’s land suitable for rice but 64% is under crop: study calls for critical review Punjab grows rice on over 32 lakh hectares (64 per cent of the state’s total geographical area).

Apple Maps now display the names of traditional owners, as well as reserves and protected areas, Indigenous place names, traditional country and more than 250 dual-language labels.

The minister said according to the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India (2021), an area of 97.85 million hectares (29.77%) of the total geographic area is under degradation.

Apart from this, he said that it will compile a full-scale geographical map of Punjab which will not only reflect the ground situation but also link it with the land records.

Agriculture is a major driver of land degradation. The expansion of farming has cleared or transformed an estimated 70 per cent of grasslands and 50 per cent of savannahs worldwide. At the same time, ...

By Bryony Cottam A new conservation tool, the Global Ecosystems Atlas, has been launched with the goal of providing a comprehensive and harmonised resource for mapping and monitoring all the world’s ...

Land degradation has to focus beyond the traditional definitions to incorporate more persistent and the difficult to restore degradation causes. Such complex land degradation requires specialized LDN ...

Save Soil's map of different levels of land degradation around the globe in 2019. Save Soil It also helps improve water filtration and provides habitats for insects that may be beneficial to the soil.

A team of researchers has developed an innovative approach that maps the soil salt contentaround the world with an exceptional detail of 10 meters.  ...