All publications and documents

In northern Bahia state, 35 communities have come together to conserve and recover close to 100,000 acres of Caatinga dry forest in northeastern Brazil. With the Recaatingamento project, families learn to preserve native vegetation, control the overpopulation of goats, and invest in sustainable sources of income, such as gathering wild fruits. Affected by recurrent droughts,…

Environmental Commissioner Maria Panayiotou on Friday took part in a tree planting event held in Tseri, outside Nicosia. The event marked the start of a series tree planting initiatives under the auspices of the LIFE AgrOassis project, co-funded by the European Union. The endeavour will focus on areas undergoing desertification due to climate change. “Today we’re not…

In a study published in Remote Sensing, scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed a Desertification Difference Index (DDI) model to better understand and combat global grassland desertification. The study focused on extracting desertification information using albedo-EVI in Xilingol, north China's Inner Mongolia…

Erosion significantly diminishes soil productivity, water retention and carbon storage capacity, contributing to a perilous situation where 73.4% of the country faces the threat of desertification An expert expressed grave concern about Türkiye's escalating desertification threat, standing at a worrisome 73.4%, primarily due to erosion exacerbated by heavy rains induced by the…

As the COP28 climate change summit progresses in Dubai, one can only hope that negotiators from various parts of the world have taken note of a report released at the beginning of the conference warning the world about the rapid rise in desertification caused by human activities. Calling it a global emergency, the report, prepared by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, is…

Nearly 13 per cent of Azerbaijan is deemed degraded, much is desert. Data shows at least 100 million hectares of healthy land is lost each year to desertification, drought and land degradation. Can anything halt it? By Tom Howarth The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has launched its new ‘Data Dashboard’, a combination of reported figures on land…