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 ...

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

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

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These ...

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

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

As AI becomes more embedded in the agricultural DNA of the region, the dream of a self-reliant, tech-empowered, and ...

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 ...

Map: The Economist Across the border in Santo ... One IMF paper found comparable amounts of arable land and rainfall over the years on both sides of the island. A far more convincing explanation ...