Decades of deforestation, mining and industrial pollution have taken a toll on the planet, leaving as much as 40% of its land degraded and putting economies at risk, a U.N. report says.
A farmer drives a tractor in his field while planting potatoes in Tilloy-lez-Cambrai, near Cambrai, France, April 12, 2022. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File PhotoLONDON, April 27 - Decades of deforestation, mining and industrial pollution have taken a toll on the planet, leaving as much as 40% of its land degraded and putting economies at risk, a U.N.
Humans have converted more than 70% of Earth's ice-free land area in their quest for food and natural resources, including everything from sand to fossil fuels.Such resource extraction has left waters polluted, soils eroded, mountain slopes destabilized and crop yields diminished. Roughly half of the global economy, or about $44 trillion a year, relies on land cultivation or resource extraction.
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