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 ...
Tag: Land degradation
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, ...
Cloud Computing Maps Soil Erosion Crisis in Ethiopia’s Cereal Heartland
A new satellite-based modeling study shows that widespread soil and water conservation could nearly halve severe soil loss in Ethiopia's ...
Satellite Terrain Data and Machine Learning Reveal Where Soil Quality Fails
Researchers in northern Iran combined satellite-derived terrain attributes with a support vector machine and factor analysis to map soil quality, ...
Deep Learning Model Maps Desertification Risk With 92 Percent Accuracy
Researchers in India have developed a deep learning framework called ASTILM that fuses fuzzy logic and CNN-LSTM networks to assess ...
Ethiopia’s Billion-Dollar Soil Push Is Failing a Simple Ruler Test
A new field study in Ethiopia's central Gondar highlands finds that widely implemented soil and water conservation structures consistently fall ...
How Restored Soils Lock Away Carbon: The Hidden Machinery Beneath Our Feet
A sweeping systematic review of 25 years of research reveals that soil aggregates, mineral associations and microbial communities, not just ...
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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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