Desertification is caused by factors like soil degradation and subsequent erosion, overgrazing, deforestation of rainforests and the flight of impoverished populations—whether northward, such as to ...

Experts on climate change and its impact on people and the environment gathered this week in the desert of southern Israel for the annual Conference on Drylands, Deserts and Desertification (DDD), ...

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 ...