More than 75 percent of Earth's land area is already degraded, according to the European Commission's World Atlas of Desertification, and more than 90 percent could become degraded by 2050.

It has been exactly 10 years since the United Nations adopted its Convention to Combat Desertification, calling attention to a problem that affects hundreds of million of people around the world.

Save Soil used data from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification to make a map showing levels of degradation around the world in 2019. It then used an estimation from the Global ...

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The Antarctic Desert holds the title of the largest desert in the world, covering an astounding area of approximately 14 million square kilometres. Located in the southern hemisphere, within the ...

Desertification affects the lives of approximately 2 billion people around the world and turns people into ... which was launched to determine and map old-growth forests in Turkey's Eastern ...

Desertification and drought are issues of a global dimension in that they affect all regions of the world, and that joint action by the international community is needed to address them, particularly ...

New York - Deserts keep growing around the world, but the process can be reversed if governments act in time, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday. Speaking at the UN General Assembly ...

World Day to combat Desertification and Drought was observed today. The theme for this year's day was "United for Land. Our Legacy. Our Future". The day highlighted future role of land stewardship in ...