Spain is home to mainland Europe's only desert, the Tabernas Desert, and the country is facing a harsh future. With scientific research predicting that Spain will be fully desertified within the next ...

Amid rampant growth, D.C. region and other metropolitan areas face 'freshwater salinization syndrome' that may become irreversible, researchers say.

My team and I have developed the first global map of soil salinization (accumulation of salt in soil) under various climate scenarios using AI-powered techniques. Soil salinization is one of the ...

If salinization kills off zooplankton, that process could trigger reductions in both fish growth and population. Less zooplankton also likely means more algae since the zooplankton aren’t ...

A study exploring freshwater salinization finds that changes in salinization and alkalinization have respectively affected 37 percent and 90 percent of the drainage area of the contiguous United ...

Salt concentrations are increasing dramatically in streams, rivers, lakes, and other sources of freshwater around the world, the authors say, a process known as freshwater salinization.

Salinization affects biodiversity and the functioning of water ecosystems directly "but we need a lot of base-line information on organisms, communities and ecosystems to predict their effects ...

Universidad de Barcelona. "Salinization of rivers: A global environmental problem." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 11 January 2013. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 01 / 130111092529.htm>.

And it's predicted to only get worse. In India, for example, 44% of the land is already saline, and researchers estimate that salinization will affect 50% of the country by 2050.

Salinization is reducing the world’s irrigated lands by 1 to 2 percent annually, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization.