As the largest ecosystem of China, the desert ecosystem and the desertification-prone
region (DPR) occupies 44% of China's land area. The past, present, and the future of …

Soil is the main component in the agroecosystem besides water, microbial communities, and
cultivated plants. Several problems face soil, including soil pollution, erosion, salinization …

Regions can meet their development demands through trade, with the attendant
environmental costs being shifted to other regions, and carbon emissions emitted from …

Land degradation is a complex socio-environmental threat, which generally occurs as
multiple concurrent pathways that remain largely unexplored in Europe. Here we present an …

Mainstreaming the land degradation neutrality (LDN) framework in national and local policy
systems is critical to addressing global land degradation. However, existing land productivity …

CONTEXT Agriculture production is crucial in mitigating climate change while securing food
productivity. However, the impact of the practices such as organic waste (crop residue and …

Land use changes profoundly affect the equilibrium of soil organic carbon (SOC)
sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions. With the current global climatic changes, it is …

Synthesizing bare soil pictures in regions with complex vegetation is challenging, which
hinders the accuracy of predicting soil organic carbon (SOC) in specific areas. An SOC …

Ensuring the supply-demand security of water-energy-food systems (WEF) is paramount in
sustainable cities. Leveraging ecosystem services (ESs) as a bridge between WEF supply …

Here, a degraded soil, located in a semi-arid Mediterranean region, was characterized 17
years after organic amendment with sludge or compost (differing in their stabilization …