Earth's drylands expand, affecting billions as climate warms
As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three ...
IEEE15d
Mapping Coastal Soil Salinity and Vegetation Dynamics Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data Fusion with Machine Learning Techniques
Abstract: Coastal regions are vulnerable ecosystems where monitoring soil salinity and vegetation coverage dynamics is critical for environmental management and conservation. This study introduces a ...
Envirotech Online16d
How salinity could become the most important environmental parameter
While environmental monitoring professionals are keeping track of aerosols, greenhouse gases, nutrients, PFAS and ...
Frontiers23d
Editorial: Enhancing salinity tolerance in crop plants through agronomic, genetic, molecular, and physiological approaches
Soil salinity is increasing worldwide, posing a serious threat to crop production and food security. The rate of increase in salinity is estimated at 1.5 million hectares per year, which is a major ...
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World food prices rose in February on back of sugar rush, UN's FAO says
ROME, March 7 (Reuters) - Global food commodity prices rose in February, driven by higher sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil prices, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations ...
Morocco World News29d
From Marginal to Farmland: Biosaline Agriculture’s Promise in Water-Scarce Lands
“Salinity is irreversible. Once soil becomes saline, it never goes back to its original state,” the professor warned, citing data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). According to ...
Scientific Research Publishing1mon
Evaluation of Treated Municipal Wastewater
Environmental Research Center, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] ...
eLife1mon
Systems genomics of salinity stress response in rice
The manuscript provides solid evidence that mean gene expression levels are further from the optimum abundance for more genes under the elevated salinity treatment compared to normal treatment, and ...
Frontiers2y
The interaction of salinity and light regime modulates photosynthetic pigment content in edible halophytes in greenhouse and indoor farming
Reducing land use and water consumption is among the biggest challenges for future food production (FAO, 2020). One approach to overcome ... for saline indoor farming since they tolerate high salinity ...