In Morocco’s drought-hit Anti-Atlas Mountains, women are changing lives by turning fog into clean drinking water. Using giant mesh nets ins...

Pro-Iranian accounts on X claim Iran's weather has drastically improved after allegedly destroying a UAE cloud-seeding center, leading to h...

Union Minister Bhupender Yadav outlines India's efforts to address land degradation and desertification at CoP16 in Riyadh. He highlights I...

The project intends to counter climate change and desertification and is inspired by Africa's “Great Green Wall” from Dakar to Djibouti.

Designated seats of two Pakistani representatives remained vacant during the plenary on inaugural day.

The fortnight long meeting will focus on practical measures to recover degraded land areas, critical gaps in land management and planning.

India is hosting the Conference of Parties (COP) 14 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) from September 2-13.

"India will lead by example and cooperate with the world. We will make all necessary contributions in the matter," Javadekar said.

Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) cost India about 2.54 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014-15, a new s...

Union minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday assured that the central government will extend all possible support to any scheme for enhancing t...

By the end of 2014, there was 1.72 million square kilometers of sandified land, about 17.93 per cent of the national territory, down 9,902 ...

For this to happen, all critical stakeholders— ministries of environment, agriculture, water resources and land resources— have to work tog...

Javadekar said that the objective of land degradation neutrality is to maintain or improve the condition of land resources via sustainable ...

The central government's in principle acceptance of the Kasturirangan report on Western Ghats, which will exclude 63% of the area from cons...

Ministry of agriculture is implementing various shemes and programmes for increasing the productivity of agricultural land, said Tariq Anwa...

United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the twin scourges of desertification and climate change are impeding the achi...