Global demand for arable land is rising, making Africa a key target for large-scale acquisitions to tackle food and energy challenges.

An international research team has developed the world's first 30-meter resolution dataset to track changes in land ...

Scientists at Lancaster University have studied satellite images of the UK to produce the most accurate assessment yet on how much land solar farms ...

Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These contaminants – arsenic, cadmium, lead, and others – may be invisible to the eye, ...

There has always been a cocktail of contradiction—an alliance of hopefuls and harbingers, of markets and mayhem.

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

The UAE rejects the charges. Reem Ketait, a foreign-ministry official, calls them a “cynical and baseless PR stunt” and ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

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Bananas from the tropics, apples from temperate zones, pineapples from volcanic islands—fruits grow where climate, soil, and ...

A new study led by Amy Bogaard, Professor of European Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, reveals that ...

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