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 ...

Today's generation is surprised when told about how fog covered the whole of Kathmandu during winter in the Seventies, which made visibility extremely poor. The city's population in 1980 was around ...

Land desertification is a serious environmental problem that affects more than 50 million hectares of the territory of Russia. The epicenter is the Black Lands in the Republic of Kalmykia and the ...

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 ...

The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought underlines the urgent need to halt land degradation through global cooperation and innovative solutions – such as those offered by nuclear science.

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 ...

AMMAN — Local and regional experts on Sunday participated in an online panel discussion on the challenges and potential solutions to desertification and drought in the Middles East and North African ...

ABU DHABI, 17th June, 2026 (WAM) -- The UAE is at the forefront of global efforts to combat desertification and drought through an advanced model that is reshaping the relationship between people and ...