Based on the numeric index, environmental scientists prepared a map of the region, which highlights the major factors that cause desertification. As per the map, 10.4 percent of Mongolia's land ...

AS the world marks World Hunger Day on Wednesday, under the theme “Sowing Resilience”, Nigeria stands at a critical juncture.This year’s theme underscores the pressing need to address the ...

and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), has determined that fishing trawling causes intensive, long-term biological desertification of the sedimentary seabed ecosystems, diminishing their ...

It robs lands of the moisture needed to sustain life, kills crops and can cause sandstorms and wildfires ... “We're convinced that desertification is our destiny. But thankfully, there ...

Drought causes food insecurity when crops fail ... Droughts bring the most risk to areas with high-pressure weather systems that are already prone to desertification. Developing countries are also ...

And now that desertification has been institutionalised in the UN system ... Local livelihood production systems and institutions are well suited to variability Causes of environmental degradation ...

Major causes of erosion are poor crop rotation and lack of fertilizer, especially organic. Climate change and anthropogenic factors are also driving the process. Desertification is a serious ...

Barron Joseph Orr, the lead scientist for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), cautioned at the COP about a “knock-on effect” in which warming-caused loss of agricultural land can ...

The memorandum covers various areas of cooperation, including combating the causes of desertification, implementing projects to develop plant ecosystems, planting and maintaining seedlings ...

A Chinese scientist dedicated to combating desertification has been awarded ... to devote themselves more actively to the cause of ecological protection of the earth, Lu said, according to the ...

This land warming contributes to desertification in several ways. For one, it causes heat stress in vegetation. Global warming also worsens extreme weather events, like droughts and floods ...

While the Three-North Shelterbelt Program has received praise for its ambitious goals, experts believe that tree-planting alone may not be sufficient to address the root causes of desertification.