Land water is vanishing faster. Earth's surface struggles to recover, risking food, water, and climate stability.

In March 2025, wildfires swept across South Korea, scorching vast swaths of land and prompting a massive emergency response.

As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three decades, over three-fourths of all the world's land became drier than it had ...

The reason is that 95 per cent of its area is submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, disappearing long before humans existed on Earth ... when Zealandia was dry land the rivers flowing ...

Authorities believe the wildfires started by accident from human activity, but the main drivers of the devastation are dry land, and strong gusts sweeping over inland regions. The high ...