Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

Multiomics approaches for understanding of the dynamic mechanisms of soil holobiont in mitigating salinity stress in plant hosts. PGPR = plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria; AMF = arbuscular ...

Having dry edible bean acres inundated by water is a common occurrence year in and year out in North Dakota and Minnesota, and as result, salts have risen to the surface creating saline soils. Tom ...

Saltwater intrusion from sea level rise and tidal flooding is increasing soil salinity risks in coastal farm fields (Figure 1). Soil salinity is related to the presence of soluble salts and cations ...

Every day for the past 20 years, about 2,000 hectares of irrigated land in arid and semi-arid regions have been damaged by salinization. Soil salinity, made worse by the escalating impacts of climate ...

Nationwide, nearly 19.43 million hectares of irrigated land are affected, with 1.4 million hectares abandoned altogether due ...

When salinity rises, the soil creates a condition agronomists call physiological drought: salt increases osmotic pressure around plant roots, preventing crops from absorbing moisture even when fields ...

Speakers at a human chain on Sunday demanded strict enforcement of existing laws to stop salt, shrimp and crab farming on agricultural land and called for alternative livelihoods and rehabilitation ...