And it's predicted to only get worse. In India, for example, 44% of the land is already saline, and researchers estimate that salinization will affect 50% of the country by 2050.

Salt concentrations are increasing dramatically in streams, rivers, lakes, and other sources of freshwater around the world, the authors say, a process known as freshwater salinization.

My team and I have developed the first global map of soil salinization (accumulation of salt in soil) under various climate scenarios using AI-powered techniques. Soil salinization is one of the ...

Universidad de Barcelona. "Salinization of rivers: A global environmental problem." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 11 January 2013. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 01 / 130111092529.htm>.

If salinization kills off zooplankton, that process could trigger reductions in both fish growth and population. Less zooplankton also likely means more algae since the zooplankton aren’t ...

Salinization affects biodiversity and the functioning of water ecosystems directly "but we need a lot of base-line information on organisms, communities and ecosystems to predict their effects ...

A study exploring freshwater salinization finds that changes in salinization and alkalinization have respectively affected 37 percent and 90 percent of the drainage area of the contiguous United ...

Different types of salinization with a prevalence of sodium salts affect about 30% of the land area in Australia. While more attention is given to groundwater-associated salinity and irrigation ...

Salinization is reducing the world’s irrigated lands by 1 to 2 percent annually, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization.