The increasing salinity in freshwater habitats—rivers, lakes, wetlands, etc.— is a global threat to the conservation of biodiversity and the natural habitats of the world. Human activities such as ...

April 11, 2019 — The water tastes salty and the rice barely grows in the coastal villages of the Ca Mau peninsula at the southern tip of Vietnam’s Mekong River delta. Thi Tran, a young woman who farms ...

Soil salinization is the most diffuse form of soil degradation in drylands, where it represents a rising threat to crop production and ecosystem functioning. While aridity is thought to be the main ...

A new Coordinated Research Project has been launched to develop Climate-Smart Agricultural practices to manage and restore salt-affected soils in agricultural land. The IAEA, through the Joint ...

In semiarid ecosystems, the extension of agricultural land area for cultivation of crops has caused the replacement of the original vegetation, typically scrublands, and thereby a dramatic loss of ...

William Hintz likes to think of the complex connections making up our environment as a series of dominoes. “You push one domino and many other dominos fall — even though you didn't push them,” Hintz, ...

Freshwater ecosystems around the world are becoming saltier and saltier. Many human-driven factors contribute to freshwater salinization, including: irrigation, oil extraction, potash mining, and road ...

This week marked the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, highlighting the importance of accelerating progress to restore 1.5 billion hectares of degraded land around the world. The IAEA ...

North America's freshwater lakes are getting saltier due to development and exposure to road salt. A study of 371 lakes reports that many Midwestern and Northeastern lakes are experiencing increasing ...

An influx of salt from both land and sea and a warming world are condemning the world's rivers, streams and estuaries to a "saltier future," according to a new study led by University of Maryland ...