Distant countries like Italy and Sweden blipped back onto the hipster world map at the turn of the 21st century, after the long reign of Brazil (with tropicalia), France (la decadanse), and Norway ...

Nearly one-fifth of China's arable land is contaminated with either organic or inorganic pollution, according to the results of a soil-pollution survey from government ministries.

China's total arable land has increased for two consecutive years, Natural Resources Minister Wang Guanghua said during a news conference held by the State Council Information Office on Tuesday.

Find out what the average price is for arable land and pasture in English and Welsh counties on our land map. It shows a full breakdown of average values on a county-by-county basis for prime ...

More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only ...

An FAO map suggests that arable land, suitable for major cash crops such as wheat, coffee, beans, cassava and plantain, will be halved by 2100.

Heavy metals contaminate up to 17% of world's arable land: study Up to 17 percent of cropland worldwide is contaminated with at least one type of toxic heavy metal, posing health risks to up to 1. ...

The 'land cover map', from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, shows that urban sprawl accounts for just six per cent of the country's landscape.

China's total arable land amounted to almost 1.28 million sq km (490,000 sq miles) by the end of 2019, down nearly 6% compared with a decade earlier, according to a once-in-a-decade survey of the ...

China's arable land amounted to 2.03 billion mu (about 135.4 million hectares) at the end of 2012, 227 million mu more than the bottom line set by the government to ensure food security.

The online service area exceeds 148 million mu (9.87 million hectares), accounting for about seven percent of the national arable land area, Syngenta Group CEO Erik Fyrwald said at a summit co ...