Desertification is a form of land degradation by which fertile land loses much of its biological — and economic — productivity, and becomes desert. Today, up to 40% of the world's land is ...

Four football fields of land degrade into desert every second. That equates to an area almost as large as Ethiopia each year. Could efforts to restore and reforest this arid terrain bear fruit?

While most of the world’s disputes involve countries fighting over land, this unassuming patch of desert reminds us that geography and history can sometimes produce anomalies where no one wants ...

Recreation areas nearby will remain open to the public ... at the bureau’s California Desert District and Barstow Field offices. The Bureau of Land Management manages more than 245 million ...

The soil requires a 15%-20% retreatment after four or five years if the land is tilled and if untilled then the treatment lasts for longer. Desert Control says initially it will target municipal ...

"There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our Habitas Co-Founder and CEO. “It's an incredibly serene and humbling place, which is a draw for those ...

In March 2015 — shortly after the close of the public comment period on the draft Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) — the federal government announced that the Bureau of Land ...