China is tackling desertification in Xinjiang using advanced technology previously tested on the moon, aiming to enhance food ...

Iran is grappling with severe desertification and water scarcity, leading to potentially uninhabitable territories, contributing to internal migration and posing a threat of mass exodus. Tehran's ...

A new wave of anti-desertification projects has been launched in western China as authorities ...

Bonn, Germany, 21 February 2024 – This year’s Desertification and Drought Day, observed on 17 June, will focus on the future of land stewardship. Every second, an equivalent of four football fields of ...

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Desertification is a land degradation process in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid regions driven by complex interactions among climate variability, anthropogenic pressure, and ecosystem sensitivity.

In northern Bahia state, 35 communities have come together to conserve and recover close to 100,000 acres of Caatinga dry forest in northeastern Brazil. With the Recaatingamento project, families ...

UN talks aimed at halting the degradation and desertification of vast swathes of land started in Saudi Arabia on Monday after scientists fired a stark warning over unsustainable farming and ...

Inigenous Yagua people are forced to travel long distances to fetch water after drought in the upper Amazon valley cut the river's flow by 90 percent, according to Colombian authorities. — Luis ACOSTA ...

Exclusive: Some £260bn is required annually to tackle the escalating problem, with only £56bn currently mobilised, amid an ...