land degradation
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Wait, what?! There’s more life in a teaspoon of soil than people on Earth
There’s more life in a teaspoon of healthy soil than there are people on Earth. So why do we still…
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Wait, what?! Why are there three COPs?
Climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation are interconnected crises that require interconnected solutions. This video introduces the three environmental…
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When the scorecard improves, but the forest doesn’t
New research shows that better forest management scorecards can mask declining ecological outcomes.
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Drylands are feeding the world. Why are they still overlooked?
Drylands support one-third of humanity and supply almost half of the world’s food, yet they remain largely overlooked in climate…
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From Djibouti to UNCCD COP17: Accelerating progress on Africa’s Great Green Wall
Across Africa’s drylands, a new push for transformation is underway. Stretching across 11 countries, from Senegal to Djibouti, the Great…
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Digging deeper: How soil spectroscopy is revolutionizing agriculture in The Gambia
“It could be a ‘game-changer’ for our work” A breakthrough in efficient, accurate, and scalable soil diagnostics is taking root…
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Destruction stops here: Shaping landscape restoration in Philippines
“I will be a guardian and restorer of this land and help the people living here do that,” said Loren…
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Reforestation could play role in pandemic recovery jobs creation, says IMF’s Georgieva
Policymakers in many European countries are saying that growth must be low carbon and climate resilient as they put forward…
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Now the IPCC knows it too, climate change can’t be solved without rights
Yesterday, the day before Indigenous Day, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included indigenous rights in its Special…
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Paris Agreement disagreement; landscape restoration “overlooked,” misinterpreted, blocked
In Forests News last week: New online platform tackles agency duplication in the Congo Basin Developers aim to harmonize conservation…
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The future of wetlands: We’ve been warned
At the Rio conference 25 years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists – which included 1,700 leading researchers, a number…
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Addressing the dangers of degraded land
Up to 1.3 billion people are now living on degraded land, at risk of food and water shortages and worsening…
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Advancing forest landscape restoration worldwide
Since 2010, national governments worldwide, alongside technical and financial partners, have stepped up ambitious commitments to implement forest landscape restoration…
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It takes a village to re-raise a forest
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded…
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Regreening Ethiopia
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded…
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