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 ...

Severe land degradation and desertification are impacting the Earth's ability to "support environmental and human wellbeing," said a 2024 UNCCD report. Degraded land can no longer support diverse ...

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

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 ...

Research by the World Resources Institute and a report by Deloitte simply confirm what scientists have been loudly warning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni warned on Saturday that rigid green policies could devastate Europe's industrial base, and called for a more cautious approach to the ecological transition that ...