Climate change, land degradation, and desertification lead to the loss of carbon present in
the soil and plants. The carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere has reached …

Extraction of coal through opencast mining leads to the buildup of heaps of overburden (OB)
material, which poses a significant risk to production safety and environmental stability. A …

CONTEXT Globally, rainfed regions encounter several constraints that limit crop production.
Poor and degraded soils resulting from soil erosion are one among them. We hypothesized …

Abstract In the Indian Eastern Himalayas, shifting cultivation has long been a major cause of
land degradation. However, indigenous communities, like the Hmar, have successfully …

Inappropriate management of land use systems is one of the main factors that leads to soil
quality degradation and its quantification is crucial to their sustainable utilization planning …

Ravine lands are the worst type of land degradation affecting soil quality and biodiversity.
Crop production in such lands is impossible without adopting proper conservation …

The 20-year study investigated the effects of conservation practices (CPs) and farmers'
practices (FPs) on various soil quality parameters, yield, and economics of horticultural land …

Abstract A long‐term experiment (1995–2021) was conducted on litchi (Litchi chinensis L.)
with and without conservation practices, that is, litchi under clean cultivation …

The integration of trees into diverse land-use systems holds potential for India to meet
nationally determined contribution (NDC) targets under the Paris Climate Agreement. With a …

Soil salinity is one of the major environmental stresses that significantly hampers crop yield
worldwide. This study assessed the effectiveness of the rhizospheric fungus, Aspergillus …