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#943002013-06-18
United Nations urges global efforts to respond to drought
NEW YORK, June 17 (UPI) -- United Nations officials say global action is needed to improve responses to the threat of drought around the world.
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#938282013-05-22
Miracle in the Sahara: Oasis Sediments Archive Dramatic History
A marvel of nature, the lakes of Ounianga in the Sahara Desert have lasted thousands of years and withstood dramatic climate change. Now, a German geologist has analyzed lakebed sediments to shed light on a spectacular chapter in human history.
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#936942013-05-15
Protecting Niger’s Desert Salt Pans
BILMA, Niger, May 15 2013 (IPS) - The Bilma community has mined the salt pans in the massive Ténéré desert region in northern Niger for centuries. But the threat of the ever-encroaching desert has become a real concern as locals here struggle to cope with a decline in salt prices
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#935722013-05-08
Desertification affects 400m Chinese
Some 400 million Chinese people's livelihoods are affected by desertification, which takes up 27.46 percent of the total land area, said a forestry official on Tuesday.
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#935612013-05-07
Abrupt rain brings out rare butterflies
The earlier concerns of entomologists in Kuwait regarding the disappearance of a rare species of butterfly, Painted Ladies, has been put to rest by the recent bouts of rain, says Mohammed Marafie, Entomologist at Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources
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#932882013-04-17
African Nations Strive to Stem Desertification With a 'Great Green Wall'
Stretching from Dakar to Djibouti, a United Nations-backed programme dubbed the 'Great Green Wall' brings together 11 countries to plant trees across Africa to literally hold back the Sahara desert with a swathe of greenery, lessen the effects of desertification and improve the lives and livelih ...
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#933002013-04-17
Scientists struggling to put land degradation into SDGs
[BONN, GERMANY] Lack of data and poor communication by scientists may be keeping land degradation and desertification off the sustainable development agenda, experts warned the UN Convention to Combat Desertification's (UNCCD) 2nd Scientific Conference last week (9–12 April).
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#933022013-04-17
Desertification crisis affecting 168 countries worldwide, study shows
Severe land degradation is now affecting 168 countries across the world, according to new research released by the UN Desertification Convention (UNCCD).
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#932802013-04-16
Developing nations have 'more to lose' from loss of drylands
[BONN, GERMANY] Developing countries have much more to lose from land degradation than developed ones, as the economic value of dryland ecosystems — determined by factors including food and raw material production, ecosystem services and tourism — is far greater there, according to a study.
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#932562013-04-15
Data dearth impeding fight against desertification
[BONN, GERMANY] The lack of location-specific scientific data on the degradation of land, and the dearth of networks through which to share such data where it does exist, are hampering the fight against desertification, a conference has heard.
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#931642013-04-10
Land Degradation Involves Huge Costs
Some 600 scientists, government officials and representatives of civil society organizations are gathered in Bonn to carry out the first ever comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of desertification, land degradation and drought. During the meetings, concluding April 19, governments will for the f ...
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#930472013-04-02
New efforts to protect Jordan's Wadi Rum desert
Humankind has left his mark on Jordan’s Wadi Rum since prehistoric times. The unique desert last year was granted UNESCO heritage status as a natural and cultural site - and is now paying the price.
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#928642013-03-22
Desertification: We need to win
Tanzania is faced with many threats, dangers and risks. Wondering why? The depletion of her forests and the general mismanagement of the environment are but only a few of the most visible.
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#927682013-03-15
Transparency Could Tighten Drought Policy
GENEVA, Mar 15 2013 (IPS) - Scientists gathered in Geneva for the first High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) in over 30 years have identified data collection and sharing as some of the main challenges to effective prevention of drought. Clear goals and strong political will are ...
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#925762013-03-05
Greening the drylands
Several efforts have been made in the past to green the State’s drylands. Among them is the joint forest planning and management programme implemented in 1993.
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#920562013-02-07
Desert bacteria could help boost crop yields
[CAIRO] Desert soil microbes could help halt desertification and boost agriculture in arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa, according to a study.
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#918762013-01-23
Cotton could be desert water source
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Cotton with a special coating that collects water from fog is a potential solution to provide water in desert regions, Dutch researchers say.
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#916152012-12-17
Rwanda: Land Degradation Costs Rwanda U.S. $70 Million Annually
A German researcher has revealed that Rwanda loses $77 million due to land degradation every year.
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#910282012-11-05
Lake Aibi shrinks as desertification rises
BEIJING, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- China faces a losing battle to restore Lake Aibi's ecosystem due to worsening desertification in the region of the salt lake, officials say.
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#904232012-09-21
Land degradation causes poverty
WINDHOEK - Namibia is the driest African country south of the Sahara, sandwiched between two deserts and plagued by extreme variations in rainfall.
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#900862012-09-10
Desert diversity cut by ‘human activities’
Analysis of the human impact on dryland ecosystems suggests it is “drastically changing” mammal communities.
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#900712012-09-07
Desert diversity cut by 'human activities'
Humans may be destabilising desert ecosystems across the world, according to a new study.
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#898802012-08-22
UN calls on nations to adopt urgent drought policies
Farmers from Africa to India struggle with lack of rainfall while the US endures the worst drought for decades
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#891222012-07-05
China Battles Desertification
CHIFENG, Inner Mongolia, China, Jul 5 2012 (IPS) - As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s semi-arid Northeastern region of Inner Mongolia is fighting back.
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#888942012-06-22
Anti-desertification plan gets official launch in Rio
[RIO DE JANEIRO] Organisations from Africa, Brazil and France have officially launched a scientific collaboration to fight desertification in Africa.
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#888152012-06-21
Anti-desertification plan gets official launch in Rio
[RIO DE JANEIRO] Organisations from Africa, Brazil and France have officially launched a scientific collaboration to fight desertification in Africa.
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#887502012-06-18
World News: UN officials stress importance of healthy soils to sustainable development
Top United Nations officials have called for greater efforts to preserve the soils on which human subsistence depends and to halt and reverse land degradation.
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#883492012-06-04
"Land Is Our Natural Ally, But Its Patience Is Not Eternal"
BERLIN, Jun 4, 2012 (IPS) - Land degradation poses a threat to all life on Earth including humanity. To stop the enormous loss of life-giving land, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is pushing for a sustainable development goal of Zero Net Land Degradation (ZNLD) to ...
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#882022012-05-28
Meerkat survival 'threatened by inbreeding'
The survival chances of meerkats is being threatened by inbreeding, according to a new study.
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#873142012-04-19
Rio+20 should make sustainable land use a top priority
World leaders must promote effective land use methods to mitigate drought, says Luc Gnacadja of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
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#860422012-02-22
Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is Drylands
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 22, 2012 (IPS) - How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Deg ...
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#851042012-01-17
Preserving biodiversity 'protects drylands'
The impacts of climate change and desertification on drylands could be reduced by preserving biodiversity, one of the first studies to look at dryland biodiversity and ecosystems has found.
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#849722012-01-10
Brown Revolution Brings New Hope
VICTORIA FALLS, Jan 10, 2012 (IPS) - Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It’s what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution.
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#849622012-01-09
A Crust of Dust: Degradation of Desert Topsoil by Human Activities May Wreak Havoc with the Environment
Desert soil has a living crust that is essential for fixing nitrogen, a critical plant nutrient, and for avoiding erosion that produces a swirl of itinerant dust.
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#846622011-12-20
UN Calls For Halting Land Degradation
BERLIN (IDN) - As the international community heads towards Rio+20 to commemorate the historic Earth Summit in June 1992, a senior United Nations official has called for bold actions to put a halt to poverty-generating land degradation. The UN conference in Brazil stressed the need for tangoing ...
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#836762011-11-14
Q&A: "Grabbing of Drylands is a Serious Concern"
NEW DELHI, Nov 13 , 2011 (IPS) - Designated Drylands Ambassador, United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification (UNCCD), at its 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) in South Korea in October, Dennis Garrity is mandated to raise awareness of land degradation.
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#832192011-10-26
Hard Targets Needed to Halt Land Degradation Crisis
CHANGWON, South Korea, Oct 25, 2011 (IPS) - Every six seconds, a child dies of hunger-related causes. That disturbing reality seems as remote as the moon here in the ultra-modern Changwon Convention Centre, where delegates struggled to create effective ways to stem the ongoing decline of food-pr ...
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#830512011-10-21
"The Man Who Stopped the Desert"
CHANGWON, South Korea, Oct 19, 2011 (IPS) - Yacouba Sawadogo, a peasant farmer from Burkina Faso, is known as the "man who stopped the desert." But when he first tried to save his arid land from desertification by planting the trees that have since grown into a 15-hectare forest, people in his v ...
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#830132011-10-20
"The Man Who Stopped the Desert"
CHANGWON, South Korea, Oct 19, 2011 (IPS) - Yacouba Sawadogo, a peasant farmer from Burkina Faso, is known as the "man who stopped the desert." But when he first tried to save his arid land from desertification by planting the trees that have since grown into a 15-hectare forest, people in his v ...
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#829742011-10-19
Gender Deserted at Drylands Meet
CHANGWON, Oct 19, 2011 (IPS) - Delegates to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’s (UNCCD) meeting underway in this South Korean city are convinced that women, though affected most by desertification, hold the key to addressing hunger through land regeneration.
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#830012011-10-19
Forum agrees on plans for land management
The world’s only legally binding forum against desertification announced on Tuesday its roadmap, dubbed the Changwon Initiative, renewing 194 countries’ commitment to land regeneration.
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#830022011-10-19
Pacific Resources Not to be Taken for Granted
18 October 2011, Changwon Korea - Understanding the resources we have in the Pacific cannot be taken for granted has hit home for the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Fisheries and Forest of Fiji, Viliame Naupoto.
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#829452011-10-18
Severe Drought, Other Changes Can Cause Permanent Ecosystem Disruption
ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2011) — An eight-year study has concluded that increasingly frequent and severe drought, dropping water tables and dried-up springs have pushed some aquatic desert ecosystems into "catastrophic regime change," from which many species will not recover.
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#829492011-10-18
Looking to the Sahel for Lessons in Pushing Back Deserts
CHANGWON, South Korea, Oct 17, 2011 (IPS) - Nearly all our food comes from the Earth's limited food- producing lands, but those lands continue to be degraded, guaranteeing far higher food prices and less food in the future, experts warn.
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#829142011-10-17
Preventing Desertification Better Than Cure
CHANGWON, Oct 16, 2011 (IPS) - "Humanity is the only desert-making species and we’ve been degrading usable land at one percent per year," says Luc Gnacadja, executive secretary of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
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#828462011-10-14
Conference Renews Eroded Efforts to Combat Desertification
CHANGWON, South Korea, Oct 13, 2011 (IPS) - Degradation of land is the world's quiet crisis, undercutting food production, increasing water scarcity, impoverishing hundreds of millions of people and affecting two billion overall. Nearly 20 million square kilometres of the earth's arable lands – ...
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#827452011-10-11
U.N. opens desertification forum in Changwon
The first U.N. meeting to combat desertification to be held in Korea will focus on defining standards to measure progression of land degradation, a step essential to boost international support and funding, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification said.
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#827462011-10-11
Scientific and financial backing essential to fight droughts and famine – UN agency
10 October 2011 – Scientific and financial resources are needed to counter the growing risks of droughts that all too frequently lead to famine and poverty, the United Nations said today as a conference opened in the Republic of Korea on desertification.
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#826272011-10-05
World Will Pay Dear If It Fails to Combat Land Degradation
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 5, 2011 (IPS) - Land degradation threatens populations and their livelihoods, driving food insecurity and decreasing productivity. Yet no comprehensive action has been taken to address this issue, and if none is taken now, degradation and all of its serious implications for t ...
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#822152011-09-22
World can beat desertification: UN chief
Deserts keep growing around the world, but the process can be reversed if governments act in time, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.