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 ...

Desertification, driven by climate change and unsustainable agricultural practices, is a significant environmental challenge in Kazakhstan. The Aral Sea region, severely affected by desertification, ...

RUDN University ecologists and colleagues from Algeria, Greece, Egypt, and Russia have determined the scale and causes of desertification in northern Algeria. The analysis was carried out using ...

Gori Moussa, a single mother of six, fled conflicts in Logone et Chari (Northern Cameroon) last year. She comes from a farmers' family and has been interested in planting trees with her grandfather ...

Journalists have been urged to interrogate the Great Green Wall and other initiatives aimed at addressing desert encroachment in northern Nigeria. The challenge was made at a virtual Expert Training ...

Drought and desertification threatens to degrade land in Europe and around the world. The scale of the issue is sometimes under-appreciated, but drylands cover over 41% of the Earth's terrestrial land ...

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In arid regions, strong winds can create high levels of dust aerosols—a mixture of dust, salt, bacteria, and toxic metals—that pollute the environment. Dust aerosols can affect a wide region as ...