Kenyan Smallholders Reveal Seven Distinct States on the Regenerative Agriculture Continuum
A mixed-methods study of 949 farmers in Makueni and Kirinyaga counties shows that regenerative agriculture engagement is far more heterogeneous ...
Tag: Land degradation
Satellites Reveal How Gold Mining Scarred Guinea’s Kintinian Landscape Over 26 Years
A multi-temporal remote sensing study quantifies how gold mining transformed land cover, vegetation health, and soil vulnerability in Kintinian, Guinea, ...
Droughts, Floods and the Hidden Trauma Reshaping Kenya’s Rift Valley
A new Perspective argues that recurrent droughts and floods in Kenya's Rift Valley have created a self-reinforcing feedback loop in ...
The Critical Zone: Why the Thin Skin of Earth Beneath Our Feet Deserves Center Stage
Geologist Paul Doss argues that Earth's critical zone, the thin layer of soil, groundwater, bedrock, and vegetation supporting nearly all ...
Which Soil Bunds Actually Pay Off? Economics of Land Restoration in Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Highlands
A new cost-benefit analysis of 385 households and 726 plots in Ethiopia's Upper Blue Nile Basin shows that the profitability ...
A Vast Steppe Crosses a Climate Tipping Point Into Heat and Drought
New research in Nature Geoscience shows that the Western Eurasian Steppe has undergone an abrupt, human-influenced regime shift toward hotter ...
Buried Beneath the Oil Fields: Iraq’s Drilling Waste Crisis May Be Degrading Its Land
A new study estimates that Iraq's oil industry generates 70,000 to 140,000 tons of drilling waste annually, and that conventional ...
Buried Seeds Reveal a Broken Promise: Ethiopia’s Degraded Mountain Forest Cannot Heal Itself
A greenhouse analysis of buried seeds in Ethiopia's degraded RasAmba forest shows the soil seed bank is dominated by weeds ...
New Integrated Scoring Tool Tracks Drought, Salt, and Water Stress in Uzbekistan’s Farmland
Researchers have built a unified scoring framework that combines climate, soil, and groundwater data to assess the health of irrigated ...
Nine-Year Field Trial Reveals Which Perennial Grasses Best Restore Degraded Semi-Arid Soils
A nine-year Indian field trial found that guinea grass and a tri-specific hybrid grass most effectively rebuilt soil carbon, fertility, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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