Iran is grappling with severe desertification and water scarcity, leading to potentially uninhabitable territories, contributing to internal migration and posing a threat of mass exodus. Tehran's ...

African delegates at a UN desertification conference in Uzbekistan urged the international community to not neglect the climate emergency in Africa's deserts amid the Israel-Hamas conflict and ...

Temperatures in Iran are hitting record highs, rivers and lakes are drying up, and prolonged droughts are becoming the norm, highlighting a water crisis that is turning much of the country’s territory ...

A new book asserts that desertification is a meaningless concept and the policies to reverse it are doing more harm than good I started off life as a newspaper journalist, so I appreciate the power of ...

The UNCCD set out a definition of desertification in a treaty adopted by parties in 1994. It states that desertification means “land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting ...

Desertification is a type of land degradation. It occurs when drylands become increasingly arid or desert-like. Desertification doesn’t necessarily mean that these water-scarce regions will transform ...

If the Aravallis disappear, North India could gradually turn into a desert, environmentalists warned on World Desertification ...

- the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land Example - " the dust storms in Korea are the result of rapid ...