In other words, cooperation between China and Mongolia on desertification control is still in the initial stage. And hence, ...

(CN) – The growing threat of desertification and its effects on European land, especially in the Mediterranean regions, are being poorly monitored and prepared for by the European Commission, ...

Similar success stories are emerging across China. In Ningxia, desert tourism and solar energy have turned barren dunes into sources of income. In northwest China's Gansu Province, farmers along the ...

Stanford, CA. Using advanced remote-sensing techniques from a U-2 surveillance plane and field studies, scientists from the Carnegie Institution Department of Global Ecology have for the first time ...

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Glance out the window while descending into Lanzhou — the capital city of China’s northwestern Gansu province — and there will be a seemingly endless expanse of desert and arid mountains, with hardly ...

Nearly half of the Caatinga, the only exclusively Brazilian biome, has been destroyed and 13% of its territory has already been lost to desertification. A project at Rio Grande do Norte Federal ...

Residents collect water in one of the many wells dug in the bed of a dried-up river in the Dierma region of Burkina Faso. Marc Bournof/IRD Today, dry areas represent more than 41% of land on the globe ...

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) recently raised an alarm that desertification poses serious threats to the socio-economic wellbeing of humans and biodiversity in ...

Today, World Day to Combat Desertification, WWF and IUCN are asking Mediterranean national governments to combat desertification by restoring forest landscapes and the full range of environmental and ...

(Ana Paula Cunha, Researcher// National Disaster Alerts and Monitoring Center) “That area we’ve identified of 5,000 square kilometres (1,930 miles) will grow to 15,000 square kilometres (5,791 square ...