Les conséquences de la sécheresse coûtent de plus en plus cher au régime cat nat. @iStock La COP Désertification va-t-elle réussir à se hisser au même niveau que les deux autres COP sur le climat et ...

Plénière de clôture à la COP15 Désertification d'Abidjan, en Côte d'Ivoire. La COP15 Désertification qui s’est tenue pendant deux semaines en Côte d’Ivoire s’est achevée vendredi 20 mai, avec parmi ...

As I walked in the scorching heat through Taguilalett, Mauritania, I saw houses about to be submerged by yellow-red blistering sand. I would soon realize this is the harsh reality of life in northwest ...

Desertification might sound similar to desert, but there is a fundamental difference between the two: while deserts are one of nature’s wonderful formations, desertification is a process of ...

Despite planting billions of trees over the past four years, experts say that the threat of desertification continues to loom large over the rugged and landlocked African country Ethiopia. Speaking to ...

The Gobi Desert blankets nearly 500,000 miles of northern China and southern Mongolia in dry, arid land. Cutting between the two countries and traditionally providing cover for the northern ...

Researchers have measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and which now ...

Desertification, the process by which dryland environments are degraded to less productive states, is a threat to many semi-arid areas of Africa. There is a consensus that it arises from the ...

"Here we live off the land and if it doesn't work we are in so much trouble", says Amadou Souare The UN predicts over 50 million people will be forced to leave their homes by 2020 because their land ...

Drylands are home to 2.1 billion people; for every three people, one calls drylands home. Drylands meet the basic needs of a significant proportion of the world, but are under threat. They harbor some ...