Desertification hotspots include North Africa, Southeast Asia (including the Middle East, India, and China), Australia, and Latin America (the Central and South Americas, plus Mexico). Among these ...

Southeast Australia has been getting hotter and drier ... They have routinely warned of widespread desertification, which U.N. officials have called “the greatest environmental challenge of our time.” ...

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Satellite images show how a dust storm from drought-affected SA travelled across to Sydney. New research seeks to improve Australia’s understanding of dust storms.

But desertification drove the loss of 134,300 ... and 13% are found in Australia. Gui and his co-investigators wanted to understand the global distribution and dynamic changes of oases and see ...

Desertification—the process of fertile land becoming desert—is a significant problem throughout Africa. Currently, 45 percent of Africa's land mass is experiencing desertification, with an ...

China is "using the sun to fight the sand" in the latest chapter of its ongoing battle against "desertification". An "audacious" project in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, will see the construction of 100 ...

June 24 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto Ltd (RIO.AX), opens new tab on Friday signed an agreement with Mongolia's environment ministry to address climate change and desertification issues in the country ...

Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions on every continent, scientists said in a new report, as talks on halting desertification were underway in Saudi Arabia. By Raymond Zhong ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called it a "moonshot moment": a 12-day meeting for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), looking to protect and restore land ...