Algeria initiated the Green Dam project in the early 1970s to combat desertification. This ambitious reforestation effort ...

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Forestry are introducing bamboo-based barriers and trays to ...

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When discussing deserts, it’s important to keep in the mind the distinction between deserts as a specific ecosystem and desertification as a specific process. Deserts are beguiling and wondrous: ...

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

The Libyan Authority for Scientific Research has discussed plans to launch the country’s first satellite dedicated to ...

So, rather than desertification meaning the literal expansion of deserts, it is a catch-all term for land degradation in water-scarce parts of the world. This degradation includes the temporary or ...

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A new book asserts that desertification is a meaningless concept and the policies to reverse it are doing more harm than good I started off life as a newspaper journalist, so I appreciate the power of ...

Desertification is a significant problem for arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of Earth, whereby grasslands and shrublands become a comparatively barren desert as vegetation disappears over ...

In a study published in Remote Sensing, scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed a Desertification Difference Index ...

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