The Land Surface Department is that research department of the German Remote Sensing Data Center that studies and quantifies global change as manifested on Earth‘s land surface, and in this connection ...

Soil degradation has reduced the productivity of nearly a quarter of the global land surface, affected the well-being of about 3.2 billion people and cost about 10% of annual global gross domestic ...

The Arctic is heating up particularly fast as a result of global warming—with serious ... where it covers around a quarter of the land surface, mainly north of the Arctic Circle.