What exactly are peatlands and rangelands? Here’s all you need to know about the planet’s major ecosystems, the challenges they face, and why they matter.
A new global coalition to combat sand and dust storms was launched at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Conference of Parties (UNCCD COP14) meeting in Delhi on 6 September. Sand and dust storms—also known as sirocco, haboob, yellow dust, white storms, and the harmattan—are a natural phenomenon linked with land and water management, […]
How well are countries meeting their Bonn Challenge commitments? It’s hard to tell – but a new reporting protocol aims to provide more concrete answers.
When the goats on his farm had nothing more to eat, because the soil had been eroded and most of the vegetation destroyed, South African farmer Pieter Kruger had to make one of the toughest decisions of his life. “I had always been a farmer,” he says, “but at that moment in 2007, I knew […]
