The China-Central Asia Cooperation Center for Desertification Prevention has launched a coordinated ecological offensive across Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, deploying advanced ...

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a ...

Desertification is accelerating under climate change, threatening biodiversity, food security, and human well-being across the Mediterranean Basin, southern Europe, and the Middle East. Water scarcity ...

For more than four decades, China has been working to halt the spread of desertification through the Three-North Shelterbelt ...

Desertification is turning fertile land in Africa’s Sahel into expanding desert as the Sahara pushes southward at an alarming ...

Desertification has been described as “the greatest environmental challenge of our time” and climate change is making it worse. While the term may bring to mind the windswept sand dunes of the Sahara ...

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 ...

Human activities are a primary cause of desertification. These activities include overgrazing of livestock, deforestation, over-cultivation of farmland, and poor irrigation practices. Considering that ...

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 ...

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 ...