land degradation

'Pressures on global land resources are now greater than ever, as a rapidly increasing population coupled with rising levels of consumption is placing ever-larger demands on the world’s land-based natural capital, warns a new United Nations report. Consumption of the earth’s natural reserves has doubled in the last 30 years, with a third of the planet’s land now severely degraded.'

http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/09/alert-nature-verge-bankruptcy/