By Phuong Tran Dakar 27 December 2006 Only days away from the end of the United Nations' Year of Deserts and Desertification, four experts discuss the challenges of translating a decade's worth of research about the degradation of land in arid areas

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Study: Nature Creates Buffer Against Climate Change The study focused on semi-arid ecosystems which cover 40 percent of the planet and support 40 percent of the human population. Co-author David Eldridge, with the School of Biological, Earth and Envi

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This is the Cimarron National Grassland in western Kansas. You can see that it's not very farmable but is worth preserving. In 1935, during the heart of the Great Depression, whole sections of the American Midwest suffered through a terrible drought

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Pioneering Soil Researcher Wins Top Environment Prize Biologist Diana Wall went to the ends of the earth - the seemingly lifeless Antarctic desert - to study the life in soil. What soil life does for us, it provides us with many benefits that we don'

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Even today,black-necked cranes are treated with reverence and are welcomed by farmers as they land in the fields around the villages.Here, they perform their elaborate sky pointing rituals.After the dignified business of parading,they begin to forage

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