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: ...

China is "using the sun to fight the sand" in the latest chapter of its ongoing battle against "desertification". An "audacious" project in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, will see the construction of 100 ...

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 ...

So, rather than desertification meaning the literal expansion of deserts, it is a catch-all term for land degradation in water-scarce parts of the world. This degradation includes the temporary or ...

China has morphed into a green powerhouse over the past decade, and their push to fight desertification is doing more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

China has gained a sliver of ground in its ancient battle against the desert sands, the government announced today, though it warned another 300 years may be needed to solve "the most serious ...

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 ...

The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed each year on June 17, as mandated by the United Nations, to combat the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas ...

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 ...