A study led by Prof. Tao Hui from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Desertification is caused by natural events, such as droughts and wildfires, as well as by human activities, such as land mismanagement and global warming. When trees and other flora are ...

By bnm Tehran bureau & bnm Gulf bureau Iraq's Ministry of Agriculture has announced a joint project with Kuwait aimed at reducing dust and sand storms that have increased in frequency and intensity ...

Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas; it is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations, and affects the world's poorest. The ...

Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions on every continent, scientists said in a new report, as talks on halting desertification were underway in Saudi Arabia. By Raymond Zhong ...

China's desertification has been "primarily caused by human activities, such as overgrazing, excessive logging and excavation, overexploitation, excessive land reclamation, and the misuse of water ...

Climate scientists and ecologists alike have until recently presumed that this combination of growing meteorological aridity and pressure from human activities would lead to less vegetation. They have ...

Lu and his team's efforts not only highlight significant advancements in China’s desertification control ... to the harmonious coexistence of humans and nature - a principle that has been ...

While the Sahara Desert is an important ecosystem in its own right, its human neighbors in the Sahel ... “half moons” and zai pits to fight desertification. With assistance from the World ...

Land is considered degraded when its productivity has been harmed by human activities like pollution or deforestation. Desertification is an extreme form of degradation. The last gathering of ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni warned on Saturday that rigid green policies could devastate Europe's industrial base, ...