Desertification costs $878 billion a year. COP17 advanced drought finance and monitoring but failed to secure a global ...

They disagreed on three things. First, how strict the promise should be: a firm rule everyone must follow, a gentler ...

The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has intensified its campaign for environmental protection with ...

By Linda Krueger As the 17 UN-Convention to Combat Desertification Conference of the Parties (COP17) closed in Ulaanbaatar, ...

By Joseph Lee Cattle are a central part of the identity of Andrew Msami’s Maasai community in northeast Tanzania. Herd size ...

The 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (COP17) closed this Friday in Ulaanbaatar, ...

Today (28 August) marks the end of the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat ...

In just a few decades, China has evolved from a recipient of international green aid into a major global provider of land ...

In a study published in Remote Sensing, scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed a Desertification Difference Index ...

When discussing deserts, it’s important to keep in the mind the distinction between deserts as a specific ecosystem and desertification as a specific process. Deserts are beguiling and wondrous: ...

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On 21 June 2018, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission published a new edition of the World Atlas of Desertification, offering a tool for decision makers to improve local responses to ...