Drought and desertification threatens to degrade land in Europe and around the world. The scale of the issue is sometimes under-appreciated, but drylands cover over 41% of the Earth's terrestrial land ...

Global drylands are experiencing faster-than-average warming and are also among the most vulnerable regions to climate change. Meteorological metrics all point to an emerging trend of increased ...

Crossing certain aridity thresholds in global drylands can lead to abrupt decays of ecosystem attributes such as plant productivity, potentially causing land degradation and desertification. It is ...

Even as dramatic water-related disasters such as floods and storms intensified in some parts of the world, more than three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in recent decades, UN ...

Approximately 39 million Brazilians live in areas threatened by desertification. They include farmers, indigenous peoples, and those living in the Pantanal, Caatinga, and Pampa biomes. The term may ...

Desertification is quietly redrawing the map of the habitable world. Across arid and semi-arid regions, fertile soil is degrading into unproductive land at a pace that threatens ecosystems, ...

(CN) – The growing threat of desertification and its effects on European land, especially in the Mediterranean regions, are being poorly monitored and prepared for by the European Commission, ...

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WWF will tomorrow launch Kroumerie-Mogod Week in Tunisia as part of a project to combat desertification in the Mediterranean. To coincide with World Desertification Day on 17 June, WWF has organized ...

Aridity thresholds for measured (a) aboveground biomass (n = 1353) and (d) root-shoot ratio (n = 3093). Solid red lines represent the linear fits on both sides of each threshold. The red numbers and ...