Oszkár Nagyapáti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his hand, looking for a sign of groundwater that in recent years has been in ...

Desertification threatens 24% of the world's land area spanning 126 countries and impacts 35% of the global population. Yet ...

The federal government has validated an updated national policy aimed at addressing desertification, land degradation and drought in Nigeria.

STORY: This gardening volunteer is attempting to fight one of Iraq’s most pressing threats: desertification. It’s where fertile land dries up and becomes desert, forcing people to move, according to ...

Farmers lay grass grids in the desert around Kawak Township of Moyu County, Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang ...

Bonn, Germany, 21 February 2024 – This year’s Desertification and Drought Day, observed on 17 June, will focus on the future of land stewardship. Every second, an equivalent of four football fields of ...

Preventing and combating desertification is identified as a key task, helping with nature and biodiversity conservation, sustainable management of forests, water and land resources, and improvement of ...

Desertification, driven by climate change and unsustainable agricultural practices, is a significant environmental challenge in Kazakhstan. The Aral Sea region, severely affected by desertification, ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) --Last week Mongolia signed the official agreement with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to host COP17 in its capital, Ulan Bataar, in 2026. COP17 refers ...

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 ...

Desertification is a form of land degradation in drylands, by which the biological productivity of an area is reduced to a point of almost no return, becoming barren and inhospitable. The phenomenon ...

Strengthen the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, to address ...