Desertification is accelerating under climate change, threatening biodiversity, food security, and human well-being across the Mediterranean Basin, southern Europe, and the Middle East. Water scarcity ...

The researchers at the Shapotou Desert Experimental Research Station in China have developed a revolutionary approach for reversing desertification and converting barren, shifting sand into productive ...

As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three decades, over three-fourths of all the world's land became drier than it had been ...

Human security is under threat from desertification, land degradation and drought. Combating this threat requires an integrated international response, which is why the theme for this year's World Day ...

With eleven days to the 2026 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, a detailed media report published within the week indicates that the continued increase in the price of cooking gas has ...

Reversing desertification requires money, machinery and intelligent planning from industrialized nations as humanitarian aid. We cannot expect to reverse the trends just by passing laws that people ...

* China, as one of the countries most severely affected by desertification, has brought 53 percent of its treatable degraded land under effective management, and has contributed roughly 25 percent of ...