World Soil Day is held annually on December 5 to focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and to advocate for the sustainable management of soil resources. This year, it was marked with the ...

As Nigeria joins rest of the world to commemorate the 2021 World Soil Day, The Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO), and experts in the agricultural sector have warned against practices ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One-third of the Earth’s land surface is already degraded. The UN estimates that more than 2.6 billion people are harmed by land ...

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In the vast wasteland of Wuyuan county in northern China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, soil scientist Li Yuyi and his colleagues have found a way to turn huge swathes of saline-alkaline land ...

Warmer, drier weather is increasing the risk of soil salinity in UK farmland, with experts urging annual soil testing to ...

The Lagos State Government has sensitised farmers in the state on the negative effects of salinisation on soils and growth of crops. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, disclosed this ...

Mohamed Hassona, horticulturist at the Qur'anic Botanic Garden (QBG), a member of Qatar Foundation (QF), says the World Soil Day is aimed at increasing awareness of the importance of keeping ...

Iraq is a “country facing the most and acting the least,” says one expert. Over the next decade, up to 90 per cent of archaeological sites in southern Iraq are at risk from dry winters and hotter ...

Takoradi — The Acting Director, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Soil Research Institute, Kumasi, Dr Edward Yeboah, has called on scientists to take steps and stop soil ...

Soil in Malta is facing the threats of erosion, decline in organic matter, contamination and salinisation, Mepa warned today in the State of the Environment report for 2008. It explained that soil ...

Agriculture is one of the main sectors impacted by the impacts of climate change and its effects are very much felt due to the dependency on the natural resources that this livelihood has. Among the ...