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Desertification

November 2023

  • A giraffe in arid landscapes

    The age of extinction
    ‘A biodiversity catastrophe’: how the world could look in 2050 – unless we act now

  • A herder with his flock in Uvurkhangai, southern Mongolia.

    Dust, hail and bank loans: the Mongolian herders facing life without grass

August 2023

  • A dried-up part of the Muga riverbed in northern Spain.

    Global heating likely to hit world food supply before 1.5C, says UN expert

    Water scarcity threatening agriculture faster than expected, warns Cop15 desertification president

July 2023

  • Sticks poking out of the sand and a house in the desert.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Swallowed by the sand’: Somalia’s coastal towns succumb to the desert

    As deforestation removes protection from the ferocious winds, compounding damage from climate crisis-driven drought, sand dunes are burying the medieval port of Hobyo. Will pledges to green the desert save communities already displaced by war?

March 2023

  • Two women in hijabs kneeling down amid stakes for young plants

    Greening the desert: the architect regenerating Jordan’s native forests

    Guilt over her role in concreting the landscape led Deema Assaf to set up Tayyun, dedicated to reforesting one of the world’s most arid countries

August 2022

  • IMG 20210430 164357 0 Fog Water Collectors have been installed between Gran Canaria and Portugal. LIFE NIEBLAS kicked off early 2020 and has a projection of four years. The project will take place in Gran Canaria and Portugal. The aim of this project is to improve degraded landscape reforesting using the endemic vegetation of the area. In this regard, we closely work with Natura 2000 Network, protecting and promoting endemic and native species as laid down by Annex I of the Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC. Additionally, other objectives involve the testing of different types of irrigation systems and water collection. It is expected that 100% of the water requirements of the project will be covered by the Fog Water Collectors (FWC).

    The age of extinction
    Dealing with drought: how fog collectors are providing trees with water in Spain

    Scientists in the Canary Islands and Portugal are collecting water from fog to enable reforestation of degraded landscapes

May 2022

  • Iraq's southern city of Nasiriyah during a heavy sandstorm on 5 May 2022.

    Hundreds of Iraqis hospitalised as thick sandstorm blankets country

    Flights suspended and authorities urge people to stay indoors as fifth sandstorm in a month hits Iraq

March 2022

  • Sadhguru, or Jaggi Vasudev, who is taking a 100-day motorbike journey from London to India as a #SaveSoil campaign

    The age of extinction
    Indian mystic Sadhguru on 100-day motorbike mission to save soil

    Yoga guru will visit dozens of countries en route from London to India to highlight threat to one of nature’s greatest resources

December 2021

  • A woman in silhouette passes the minaret of a mosque made out of mud reinforced with sticks

    New head of Unesco world heritage centre wants to put Africa on the map

    Lazare Eloundou Assomo wants to address imbalance that sees rich countries benefit and protect sites threatened by climate crisis

August 2021

  • The Washingtonia palm field in February 2016 and then in 2019.

    From 1m trees to a tree graveyard: how Dubai’s conservation plans went awry

    Hundreds of thousands of trees have died after costly real estate projects thwarted attempts to halt desertification

September 2020

  • Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed

    Africa's Great Green Wall just 4% complete halfway through schedule

    Report calls for more support if plan to plant 100m hectares of vegetation is to be realised

February 2020

  • The Sahara desert

    Ancient fish dinners chart Sahara’s shift from savannah to desert

    Bones of fish eaten by humans thousands of years ago offer clue to region’s ancient climate

July 2019

  • The prime minister, Ahmed Abiy, plants a tree in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

    Ethiopia plants 350m trees in a day to help tackle climate crisis

    National ‘green legacy’ initiative aims to reduce environmental degradation

May 2018

  • The Theewaterskloof Dam, a key source of water supply to Cape Town, South Africa

    Water shortages to be key environmental challenge of the century, Nasa warns

    Freshwater supplies have already seriously declined in 19 global hotspots – from China to the Caspian Sea – due to overuse, groundbreaking study shows

March 2018

  • Soil erosion in Maasai heartlands in Tanzania : Tanzania Day2-Maasi-Reserve 3445

    Land degradation threatens human wellbeing, major report warns

    More than 3.2bn people are already affected and the problem will worsen without rapid action, driving migration and conflict

October 2017

  • El Fahs, a town and commune located in Tunisia’s Zaghouan governorate

    'If the land isn't worked, it decays': Tunisia's battle to keep the desert at bay

    With vast swaths of Tunisia’s countryside turning to desert, the race is on to ensure there is land left to cultivate

July 2017

  • A herd of cattle walks through the near-desert landscape outside of Goulokum, Senegal.

    Development 2030
    Will Africa’s Great Green Wall discourage migration to Europe?

    By 2020, 60 million people from sub-Saharan Africa are expected to migrate because of desertification. The Great Green Wall is a $8bn project restoring degraded land. But will it encourage people to stay or earn the money to go?

May 2017

  • Dust storm in north Africa 2016

    Weatherwatch
    TE Lawrence dust-storm notes enlighten weather crews 100 years on

    Weatherwatch A ferocious whirling haboob that beset Lawrence of Arabia east of the Red Sea offers Met Office insight into strange storms

December 2016

  • Dar Si Hmad’s system of fog nets

    Innovations in development
    'Cloud fishing' reels in precious water for villagers in rural Morocco

  • A woman rides past a community garden in Siraj AlNour village in Gedaref state, where farmers suffering from desertification due to erratic rains and deforestation are benefiting from irrigation projects that can feed gardens and grow crops year-round

    Farmers in Sudan battle climate change and hunger as desert creeps closer

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