Bonn, Germany, 21 February 2024 – This year’s Desertification and Drought Day, observed on 17 June, will focus on the future of land stewardship. Every second, an equivalent of four football fields of ...

Oases are important habitats and water sources for dryland regions, sustaining 10% of the world's population despite taking up about 1.5% of land area. But in many places, climate change and ...

Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions on every continent, scientists said in a new report, as talks on halting desertification were underway in Saudi Arabia. By Raymond Zhong From ...

Chinguetti, a sacred site, faces climate change and heritage loss. Chinguetti, a historic and sacred site in Islam, holds immense cultural value with ancient manuscripts preserving knowledge in ...

The Sahara Desert has grown by nearly 10 percent since 1920. This shows a pressing environmental issue affecting the area. It now covers about 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers), ...

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 ...

Some one billion people globally under the age of 25 live in regions where they depend on the land and natural resources for jobs and livelihoods, but their future is increasingly under threat due to ...

Inigenous Yagua people are forced to travel long distances to fetch water after drought in the upper Amazon valley cut the river's flow by 90 percent, according to Colombian authorities. — Luis ACOSTA ...

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 ...

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 ...