While climate change, deforestation, overgrazing, unsustainable agricultural practices, and urban sprawl are key factors in desertification, a global drought crisis is exacerbating the problem.

Desertification goes beyond the realm of ... to the point that it is virtually ineffective. Factors such as deforestation and poor agricultural practices accelerate this decline.

While the world frets over deforestation and desertification, Andalusia’s forests have expanded over the last 30 years, ...

Deforestation contributes to desertification because without trees, the soil cannot retain moisture. Already 50% of tropical forests in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia have been cut down ...

Second, deforestation can cause the land surface to become relatively warm, triggering upward air flows and the formation of areas of low atmospheric pressure. Such ‘heat lows’ draw in ...

Deforestation and desertification are creating wastelands of once-thriving ecosystems, our land, water and air are poisoned by chemicals and pesticides, and choked with plastics”. The addiction ...

90% of this deforestation is driven by the urgent need for cooking fuel. This results in large-scale environmental and social degradation. The resulting environmental problems include soil erosion, ...

We need to end this. From chicken to fish to products containing palm oil such as pizza and chocolate, nearly half of global deforestation is caused by the food we eat. The scary truth is that it’s ...

In New Guinea, secondary roads contributed to 22.2 times more forest loss, and in the Brazilian Amazon they led to 305.2 times more deforestation and degradation compared with primary roads.