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China's anti-desertification drive restores 10 million hectares in five years, targets 6.7 million more by 2030- Are the world’s freshwater sources vanishing before our eyes? Satellite images reveal an appalling global water crisis
- Restoring India’s land, securing India’s future through science and collective action
- India restores 21.76 million hectares of deforested land, nears 84 per cent of Bonn Challenge targetIndia has made significant strides in land restoration. Between 2011 and 2020, over 21 million hectares of degraded land were restored, as ...17 Jun, 2026, 03.06 PM IST
- BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...09 Jun, 2026, 10.49 AM IST
- Mining turns India's heat-shield hills to dustDizzyingly deep pits from large-scale mining scar India's ancient Aravalli mountains, threatening the future of a forested buffer that New ...31 May, 2026, 09.09 AM IST
- China is using a bacteria to turn desert into fertile soil in just 10 monthsA groundbreaking technique from China transforms barren desert sand into fertile soil in just 10 months. Researchers use resilient cyanobac...26 May, 2026, 03.46 PM IST
- Turn fog into water: How these women are using an incredible technique to survive in harsh, dry mountainsIn Morocco’s drought-hit Anti-Atlas Mountains, women are changing lives by turning fog into clean drinking water. Using giant mesh nets ins...21 May, 2026, 12.55 PM IST
- Did Iran just destroy a US-Israel ‘weather weapon’, ending its drought? Viral conspiracy explainedPro-Iranian accounts on X claim Iran's weather has drastically improved after allegedly destroying a UAE cloud-seeding center, leading to h...24 Apr, 2026, 02.52 PM IST
- India underlines efforts on land restoration, drought resilience at CoP16Union Minister Bhupender Yadav outlines India's efforts to address land degradation and desertification at CoP16 in Riyadh. He highlights I...03 Dec, 2024, 06.46 AM IST
- World comes together to slow down land degradation and desertificationThe fortnight long meeting will focus on practical measures to recover degraded land areas, critical gaps in land management and planning.02 Sep, 2019, 10.20 AM IST
- India to restore 50 lakh hectare of degraded land by 2030: JavadekarIndia is hosting the Conference of Parties (COP) 14 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) from September 2-13.27 Aug, 2019, 04.55 PM IST
- India to host UN conference on combating desertification10 Jul, 2019, 07.31 PM IST
- Government committed to saving land from getting degraded: Prakash Javadekar"India will lead by example and cooperate with the world. We will make all necessary contributions in the matter," Javadekar said.17 Jun, 2019, 08.18 PM IST
- Desertification, land degradation, drought cost India 2.54% of its GDP: StudyDesertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) cost India about 2.54 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014-15, a new s...27 Apr, 2018, 11.07 PM IST
- Desertification in China reduced over past few years: ResearchBy 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 ...29 Dec, 2015, 12.45 PM IST
- Government working to make India land degradation neutral by 2023For this to happen, all critical stakeholders— ministries of environment, agriculture, water resources and land resources— have to work tog...18 Jun, 2014, 03.51 AM IST
- India to be 'land degradation neutral' by 2030: Prakash JavadekarJavadekar said that the objective of land degradation neutrality is to maintain or improve the condition of land resources via sustainable ...17 Jun, 2014, 04.53 PM IST
- Government to take steps to check land desertificationMinistry of agriculture is implementing various shemes and programmes for increasing the productivity of agricultural land, said Tariq Anwa...30 Aug, 2013, 03.21 PM IST
- 'Desertification, climate change hinder development'United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the twin scourges of desertification and climate change are impeding the achi...13 Sep, 2007, 01.10 PM IST
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