On dangerous ground: land degradation is turning soils into deserts
- Written by Abbas El-Zein, Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of Sydney
If any of us still has the slightest doubt that we are facing an ecological crisis on an unprecedented scale, then a new report on land degradation, released this week by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), provides yet another piece of evidence.
Land degradation can take many forms, but...
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