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 ...

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 Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) began its second and final week of work in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, December 9, with ...

More than 30 experts from China, Mongolia and Russia gathered in Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region on June 17 to visit an environment improvement project being run by Tian Long Ecology, a ...