Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental degradation due to dryland salinity, causing trees to die and inducing serious hillslope gully and sheet erosion at ...

Across the planet, lakes that once anchored ecosystems and economies are shrinking into cracked mudflats and toxic dust bowls. From polar ponds to inland seas, their disappearance is not a distant ...

Amid chronic groundwater depletion, water overallocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, all compounded by global heating, a UN report today declared the dawn of an era of ...

For decades, the world has been warned of a looming water crisis. A landmark report released today at the United Nations Headquarters argues that the time for "crisis management" has passed. The ...

For decades, we have heard many warnings about a global water crisis. However, a new UN-supported report states that these previous warnings do not capture the extent of the problem. Instead, the ...

UN Headquarters, New York – Amid chronic groundwater depletion, water overallocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, all compounded by global heating, a UN report today ...