Headline: News 2015

The protection of soils and land is key to solving a range of today’s environmental...

Since they were first discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, manganese nodules...

<p>The “Climate Engineering Conference 2014: Critical Global Discussions” (CEC14) was the first large international conference of its kind on climate engineering. Held over 18-21 August 2014 in Berlin, CEC14 brought together over 350 participants from more than 40 countries. As representatives of academia, the policymaking community, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the wider society, they came to discuss the many complex and interlinked issues that arise when considering the possibility of deliberate, large-scale interventions in the climate.</p>

In recent decades, researchers have been paying more attention to people’s...

Soils are the basis for our food, a habitat for countless organisms and a prerequisite...

The Arctic is particularly susceptible to radical change. This is because...

In the United Nations International Year of Soils the IASS is hosting the third Global Soil Week from...

For decades, the Himalaya Region has been particularly badly affected by climate...

Natural resources are coming under increasing pressure in the face of climate change...