After a 2017 study ascribed the critical state of the Great Hungarian Plain to "climatic changes, improper land use and ...

China is "using the sun to fight the sand" in the latest chapter of its ongoing battle against "desertification". An "audacious" project in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, will see the construction of 100 ...

(CN) – The growing threat of desertification and its effects on European land, especially in the Mediterranean regions, are being poorly monitored and prepared for by the European Commission, ...

Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents "the greatest environmental challenge of our times" and governments must overhaul policy approaches to the issue or face mass migrations of ...

Bonn, Germany, 21 February 2024 – This year’s Desertification and Drought Day, observed on 17 June, will focus on the future of land stewardship. Every second, an equivalent of four football fields of ...

Glance out the window while descending into Lanzhou — the capital city of China’s northwestern Gansu province — and there will be a seemingly endless expanse of desert and arid mountains, with hardly ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Drylands represent 40 per cent of the world's land mass ...

On Tuesday, 20 September 2011, all Member States are invited to participate at the highest political level in the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on the theme, “Addressing desertification, land ...