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 ...

Desertification costs $878 billion a year. COP17 advanced drought finance and monitoring but failed to secure a global agreement as food risks grow.

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: ...

In a study published in Remote Sensing, scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed a Desertification Difference Index ...

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Desertification is a significant problem for arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of Earth, whereby grasslands and shrublands become a comparatively barren desert as vegetation disappears over ...

According to the United Nations, although desertification can include the encroachment of sand dunes on land, it doesn’t refer to the advance of deserts. Rather, it is the persistent degradation of ...

World leaders will convene at a high-level UN conference on desertification in Riyadh next month. Another deadly consequence of the multifaceted climate crisis, desertification is growing fast as heat ...

Researchers have measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and which now ...

There is a need for big changes in habits on a global scale from production to water use against the effects of global warming as the risks of desertification increase due to climate change-related ...

Drylands are home to 2.1 billion people; for every three people, one calls drylands home. Drylands meet the basic needs of a significant proportion of the world, but are under threat. They harbor some ...

On July 29 we reached "Earth Overshoot day," according to the Global Footprint Network report. This date marks the point when humanity has consumed all the natural resources that the Earth can ...