Knowledge of the spatial distribution of agricultural abandonment following the collapse of the Soviet Union is highly uncertain. To help improve this situation, we have developed a new map of arable and abandoned land for 2010 at a 10 arc-second resolution. We have fused together existing land...

Greenhouse farming is a major source of plastic contamination in agricultural soils because it is characterized by the high production of plastic films that pollute agricultural farmlands with macroplastics and microplastics. Particularly, microplastics can penetrate the agricultural soil and...