A drastic shortage of winter rains and snowfalls has raised deep concerns over the increasing risk of desertification and ...

During the Decade, all actors are called upon to raise awareness about desertification, land degradation and drought and their solutions. The Decade campaign is intended to reinforce the ...

Desertification is worsening the situation, ravaging more than 75 per cent of land in the northern, western and southern regions. This has reduced vegetation cover, accelerated land degradation ...

Human conditions are a strong factor in the increase of desertification in Australia. What is Desertification? Desertification is a type of land degradation that occurs in dry-land ecosystems that ...

Only when the last tree has died, the last river poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we can’t eat money – Chief Seattle Chief Seattle, a Red Indian chief could not ...

WWF is proud to have helped develop the RAA and will closely monitor its implementation process (next steps are in discussion). More than $12 billion was pledged to address desertification, land ...

The implementation of the NAGGW initiative has never been as intense and deliberate as it is under the administration of its ...

The Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL) is an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land ...

combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. Experts use nuclear techniques involving certain types of atoms called isotopes, such as nitrogen-15 and carbon-13 ...

RIYADH — UN talks aimed at halting the degradation and desertification of vast swathes of land start in Saudi Arabia on Monday after scientists fired a stark warning over unsustainable farming ...

The World Economic Forum defines "desertification" as "a type of land degradation in which an already relatively dry land area becomes increasingly arid, degrading productive soil and losing its ...

“to forge a global partnership to reverse and prevent desertification/land degradation and to mitigate the effects of drought in affected areas in order to support poverty reduction and ...