China has morphed into a green powerhouse over the past decade, and their push to fight desertification is doing more than ...

When discussing deserts, it’s important to keep in the mind the distinction between deserts as a specific ecosystem and desertification as a specific process. Deserts are beguiling and wondrous: ...

Strengthen the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, to address ...

ISLAMABAD: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought will be marked on June 17 (Friday) across the globe including Pakistan to curb the desertification process and strengthen the visibility of ...

If carbon emissions remain unabated, Madrid will have a climate more like present-day Marrakesh by 2050, according to a recently published study by Swiss researchers. The study by ETH Zurich and ...

The sands across the world are crawling, turning vast stretches of land into desert each year. Their relentless march, invading villages, farmlands and water bodies, has made millions of people ...

Nearly half of the Caatinga, the only exclusively Brazilian biome, has been destroyed and 13% of its territory has already been lost to desertification. A project at Rio Grande do Norte Federal ...

A UN-led pilot scheme hopes to highlight how trees can help people in arid zone, considered to one of the most hostile habitats on the planet. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Acacia ...

The word desertification was first used in 1949 by the French geographer Andre Aubreville to describe the change in North and equatorial Africa from productive savanna forest, grasslands, and ...

(Ana Paula Cunha, Researcher// National Disaster Alerts and Monitoring Center) “That area we’ve identified of 5,000 square kilometres (1,930 miles) will grow to 15,000 square kilometres (5,791 square ...