Desertification is a type of land degradation. It occurs when drylands become increasingly arid or desert-like. Desertification doesn’t necessarily mean that these water-scarce regions will transform ...

African delegates at a UN desertification conference in Uzbekistan urged the international community to not neglect the climate emergency in Africa's deserts amid the Israel-Hamas conflict and ...

A new book asserts that desertification is a meaningless concept and the policies to reverse it are doing more harm than good I started off life as a newspaper journalist, so I appreciate the power of ...

On 21 June 2018, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission published a new edition of the World Atlas of Desertification, offering a tool for decision makers to improve local responses to ...

- the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land Example - " the dust storms in Korea are the result of rapid ...

Due to a decrease in forest coverage and increase in land degradation, drought and desertification are expanding and widening across the globe. Due to recurrent droughts, agricultural developments are ...