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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Environmental Expert.com, via World Resources Institute : Climate change poses a major threat to the world’s 2 billion rural poor, but sustainable natural resource management can help developing countries like Niger adapt to the threat. Droughts and desertification associated with climate change will hit Africa hard. ....In Niger, the Sahara desert has been moving further south into the country’s semi-arid...
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Just In Just Out (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Environmental problems, such as climate change, pollution, desertification, water scarcity and loss of biodiversity, are among the most serious challenges affecting people's well-being around the globe. While all nations are affected, the poorest countries often bear the greatest burden and have the fewest resources to adapt to changing situations. More...
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Globalisation and the Environment (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Climate change and stories of droughts and the encroachment of deserts go hand in hand. One related issue that has always intrigued me is whether desertification is a one way street. Once a desert always a desert (due to the removal of top soil etc.). This article from EarthPortal (inbox) sheds some new illuminating light on the topic that certainly informs a lunch time conversation I had recently....
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Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The effects of global warming can be starkly seen in the Sahara desert, where Niger is one of the countries most vulnerable. Al Jazeera’s May Welsh reports from the country, where she found a bedouin tribe fighting possible extinction. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrWCGIlku4
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
photo by Ray Witlin/World Bank via flickr Several African countries have recently begun a program to halt desertification in the Sahel , but even in places where the desert isn’t advancing, agricultural lands face challenges from chemically intensive agricultural methods degrading the soil, overgrazing from cattle, erosion from wind and rain, as well as other sources. Worldwatch Institute is relaying...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
By Joseph Romm Warming-driven desertification is spreading. Australia has gotten the most attention, but Spain is also turning into a desert. As Time reported : Spain is in the grip of its worst drought in a century as a result of climate change -- this year's total rainfall, for example, has been 40 percent lower than average for the equivalent period, and the country's reservoirs are, on average,...
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China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The Canadian magazine The Walrus has a lengthy article looking at the desertification of China: To date, Chinese farmers and herders have transformed about 400,000 square kilometres of cropland and verdant prairie into new deserts. The shepherds have overgrazed the steppes, allowing their sheep and goats to chew the grass all ...
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EdCone.com (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The desertification of Spain: "Climate change means that creeping deserts may eventually drive 135 million people off their land, the United Nations estimates. Most of them are in the developing world. But southern Europe is experiencing the problem now, its...
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
UNESCO wants Gulf States to set up camel farms in order to reduce the amount of air conditioning needed for milk production and to keep the region''s camels from overgrazing range land. Under its novel proposal to combat desertification, the regi
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Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
The most serious impacts of global warming involve water and the hydrological cycle: Sea level rise and storm surges Droughts and desertification Deluges and flooding Loss of snowpack and inland glaciers That's why “The Water Environment Federation (WEF) and a coalition of national water organizations called on Congress to recognize the severe impacts that global climate change will likely have [...]...
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) The Thar desert is expanding in the eastern and northeastern directions, scientists say and warn that desertification is a challenge that India is going to increasingly face. “Projections indicate significant increase in the desert area over India over the next 100 years,” says scientists P. Goswami and K.V. Ramesh of [...]
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NDTV (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Northwestern India's Thar Desert is expanding in both east and northeast directions, scientists say, and warn that desertification is becoming a more
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India eNews (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Northwestern India's Thar Desert is expanding in both east and northeast directions, scientists say, and warn that desertification is becoming a more serious challenge to the country.
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The Sahara became the world's biggest hot desert some 2,700 years ago after a very slow fade from green, according to a new study which clashes with the theory that desertification came abruptly.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Africa Desertification Control Initiative (ADCI), has disclosed its preparedness to battle the menace of desertification in the country with a free distribution of 50,000 tree seedlings to individuals in the country.
