India, Pakistan, Thailand and China all have heavy concentrations of cadmium in arable soil, raising the risk of cancer and ...

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The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture.

Up to 17% of cropland worldwide is contaminated with at least one type of toxic heavy metal, posing health risks to up to 1.4 ...

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

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

Madhavapeddy is part of the team building a new AI tool called Terra - a predictive model of all terrestrial life on Earth. It’s a hugely complex task. The aim is to understand, then help ...

Herders and farmers from left, Adama Sow, Oumar Ba and Daka Sow walk outside Niéti Yone, northern Senegal, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Thompson) ...

Mauritania is predominantly a desert country, with vast stretches of pastoral land and only 0.5% arable land. The population is estimated at around 5 million (2024), and with a density of 5 ...

Their land is designated “land use capability 3”. This is arable land, but towards the lower end of that scale. The soil and climate restricts the types of crops that can be grown there, and the ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ board of governors has issued an apology to Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” following backlash ...

Mr Ballal is one of the co-directors of the documentary No Other Land, which won an Academy Award ... violence of this kind anywhere in the world. "We abhor the suppression of free speech under ...