African delegates at a UN desertification conference in Uzbekistan urged the international community to not neglect the climate emergency in Africa's deserts amid the Israel-Hamas conflict and ...

The sands across the world are crawling, turning vast stretches of land into desert each year. Their relentless march, invading villages, farmlands and water bodies, has made millions of people ...

Desertification is a type of land degradation. It occurs when drylands become increasingly arid or desert-like. Desertification doesn’t necessarily mean that these water-scarce regions will transform ...

Temperatures in Iran are hitting record highs, rivers and lakes are drying up, and prolonged droughts are becoming the norm, highlighting a water crisis that is turning much of the country’s territory ...

- the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land Example - " the dust storms in Korea are the result of rapid ...

Iran is also becoming more vulnerable to desertification and currently, according to the Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization, 100 million hectares of the country’s land area is ...

Due to a decrease in forest coverage and increase in land degradation, drought and desertification are expanding and widening across the globe. Due to recurrent droughts, agricultural developments are ...