Afforestation transforms degraded soils in semi-arid regions, increasing microbial necromass and enhancing soil carbon and nitrogen pools, thereby improving ecosystem health.

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. How do you support the most vulnerable in semi-arid regions? Around a billion people, ...

A woman prepares food in one of the arid and semi-arid areas in Kenya / FILEThe government has announced plans to open up idle land to the private sector in the latest bid to enhance food security in ...

Each year, terrestrial ecosystems take up a significant fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, thereby slowing the increase in greenhouse gases and global warming. In periods of higher precipitation ...

The semi-arid area in the country has expanded by 10% in the recent decades and the newly formed semi-arid region in the northern India is 4% of the total land of the country. Photo for representative ...

Climate change predictions for the Middle East, like other arid regions of the world, are alarming. But in testing these dire predictions, ecologists found that, contrary to expectations, no ...

Plants growing in arid and semi-arid habitats, such as desert, contain many unique components that enable them to adapt to extreme or stressful environments. Little is known about these plant ...

More than 75% of Karnataka’s area is categorised as a dry zone, comprising semi-arid and arid regions, based on the average annual rainfall it receives. Bengaluru: More than 75% of Karnataka’s area is ...

Charles Mureithi inspecting a pomegranate fruit at his orchard christened ‘Eden villa’ at Sipili village in Laikipia County on January 21, 2018. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard] Can I grow fruits in arid or ...