Accelerating progress to restore 1.5 billion hectares of degraded land around the world and jumpstarting a trillion-dollar land restoration economy will be the focus of this year’s Desertification and ...

The loss of productive land means less food, affecting both local communities and the global food supply. Droughts and desertification have staggering economic implications. They can decimate ...

The Assembly acknowledged the persistence of desertification, despite past and on-going global efforts, and a slow response to poverty eradication among drylands populations, and declared the ...

The study shared by scientists in the journal "Science" revealed a global increase in the number and severity of multi-year droughts from 1980 to 2018. The main culprit is climate change, which is ...

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Desertification close desertificationThe spread of desert conditions in arid regions due to human activities, drought or climate change. is the process of land turning into desert as the quality ...

Brazil's Environment and Climate Change Minister Marina Silva Thursday highlighted the BRICS group's potential to lead a just ...

According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification ... World Environment Day is the largest global platform for environmental public outreach and is celebrated by millions of people across ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Driven by technological innovation, China's desertification control practices have become replicable and could significantly contribute to global ecological governance, said Wang ...

The commitment is included in the joint declaration released at the end of the 11th meeting of BRICS environment ministers, ...