Desertification is happening all around the world. According to the "World Atlas of Desertification" released by the European Commission, desertification is underway in 75 percent of the Earth's land ...

The word desertification was first used in 1949 by the French geographer Andre Aubreville to describe the change in North and equatorial Africa from productive savanna forest, grasslands, and ...

China has found workable solutions to desertification, as shown by successful projects like Saihanba National Forest Park, which is important for China and the rest of the world, according the UN's ...

Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement, which has planted millions of trees, passed away on 25th September 2011. The first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, she ...

Climate and environment impact both bio diversity and land. Effects of environmental degradation are visible in abundance now. Desertification has devastated over two-thirds of the countries of the ...

The one thing that worries climate scientists the most is the positive feedback loop. This is a process where changing one quantity changes the second one, and the change in the second quantity, in ...

Effective and innovative solutions need to be adopted to address the issue of desertification in the country, local Arabic daily Arrayah has reported, quoting experts. The measures adopted for this ...