Today, World Day to Combat Desertification, WWF and IUCN are asking Mediterranean national governments to combat desertification by restoring forest landscapes and the full range of environmental and ...

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For half a century, workers in northern China have been using a technique called "straw checkerboards" to combat desertification.

Researchers are working on ways to use the fast-growing plant in the fight against desertification in China's arid north ...

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 ...

While the Sahara Desert is an important ecosystem in its own right, its human neighbors in the Sahel would like it to stop encroaching on their environment. [Andrew Millison] took a look at how the ...

Oliver Mayer, chairman of an international expert jury assessing the inventions, said they were struck by both the teenager ...

KISKUNMAJSA, Hungary (AP) — 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 ...

It has been almost a decade in the making, but South Africa’s national action plan (NAP) to halt desertification — essentially the degradation of land as a result of climate change, erosion, ...

Beijing (AsiaNews) - China's future does not only lie in industrial policy or microchips, but also in the fight against desertification, stated President Xi Jinping during a recent symposium held in ...

As our climate changes, we fear that warmer temperatures and drier conditions could make life hard for us. In most locations, it’s a future concern that feels uncomfortably near, but for some ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) For the first time, China has hosted a major global event on desertification and land degradation, the Cop-13,United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification . The event ...