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#1332232022-02-15
Apex scavengers from different European populations converge at threatened savannah landscapes
Over millennia, human intervention has transformed European habitats mainly through extensive livestock grazing. “Dehesas/Montados” are an Iberian savannah-like ecosystem dominated by oak-trees, bushes and grass species that are subject to agricultural and extensive livestock uses.
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#1330872022-02-10
Biocrusts-Key To Ecosystem Health
Biological soil crusts, known as biocrusts, are lichens, algae, mosses, fungi, and cyanobacteria common on the soil surface.[i]They are critical to arid ecosystems, where they help to reduce soil erosion and maintain stability.
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#1317602021-11-17
How plants survive in one of the driest places on Earth, and what they can tell us about climate change
The coastal region of the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile is one of the driest places on Earth. Less than a millimeter of rain falls there per year on average.
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#1294062021-06-21
Drought threatens to become the next pandemic
"Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic, and there is no vaccine to cure it." "Drought has directly affected 1.5 billion people so far this century, and this number will grow dramatically unless the world gets better at managing this risk," said Mami Mizutori, the United Nations S ...
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#1293622021-06-16
When the soil asks for help
It helps biodiversity to recover. It locks away the atmospheric carbon warming the Earth, slowing climate change. It can also lessen the impacts of climate change and underpin a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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#1293052021-06-14
Restoration of African drylands key to economic growth
On June 2 and 3, more than 7,000 delegates gathered for the first digital conference on African Drylands. The virtual summit was organized by Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) where speakers and participants deliberated on the efficacy of drylands in Africa, and the importance of involving communiti ...
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#1290432021-06-03
Restoring African drylands from within – without myths
Dryland ecosystems cover some 43 percent of Africa. They’re home to more than half a billion people dependent on the land for their food and livelihoods, largely through farming and pastoralism, harbor some of the continent’s most celebrated wildlife and plant species, and produce much of the co ...
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#1285432021-05-11
Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems
On April 11, 2020, a band of fighters stormed and seized a water control station in the Libyan Sahara. Taking employees prisoner, they occupied a key nexus that helps move 1.2 million cubic meters (317 million gallons) of water per day — 480 Olympic-sized swimming pools — from freshwater aquifer ...
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#1284712021-05-06
Feral horses, donkeys dig desert holes to hydrate biodiversity
When it comes to finding water and staying hydrated in desert environments, animals will take all the help they can get. This includes from other wildlife, even ones that pose threats to natural ecosystems.
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#1279042021-04-06
Africa is creating its own Great Wall - and it’s green
Green is not the first colour you typically associate with the arid Sahel region in Africa. But a pan-regional initiative could change this significantly by 2030, following a pledge for new funding of more than $14 billion.
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#1279112021-04-06
New book presents the rich biodiversity of Thar desert and threats to the landscape
When one thinks of the Thar desert, what comes to mind is a landscape full of sand. But there is more to Thar, the vast desert expanse located in the northwestern part of India. It is also home to several unique flora and fauna species. Many of these are captured in the book, The National Park: ...
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#1278312021-03-29
Nearly 500 bee species are thriving in a small patch of US desert
There are about 20,000 known species of bee on the planet, and nowhere else is this diversity more concentrated than in southern Arizona along the US-Mexico border. Hundreds of bee species can be found in a patch of desert there about the size of Heathrow airport, meaning it has the world’s dens ...
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#1256062020-11-06
Q&A: How Desert Dust Storms Supply Vital Nutrients to the Oceans
When sand and dust storms (SDS) rage in the Sahara Desert, more than 10,000 km away in the Caribbean Sea the very same storms have a range of effects on the 1,360 species of shorefish that populate the waters there.
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#1255492020-11-04
Get Africa’s Great Green Wall back on track
A plan to green 7,000 kilometres of Africa’s drylands is struggling to take off. Researchers must help.
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#1231752019-11-29
Heat stress is causing desert bird populations to collapse
As the Mojave Desert in California and Nevada becomes hotter and drier, birds need more water to stay cool.
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#1222102019-09-13
UN desertification conference divided on land ownership and migration
In his speech in Delhi, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, advocated greater cooperation between developing nations, but land tenure and immigration loom over proceedings
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#1221882019-09-12
The UNCCD Drought Toolbox
New Delhi, India – “Drought is a major obstacle to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 15. We need to move faster in our fight against drought. Let us dust this villain, and mitigate climate change,” said Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw, UNCCD, Executive Secretary in his opening remarks at the Drought Prep ...
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#1221502019-09-10
India promotes South-South cooperation, but key questions unaddressed
As the second week of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of Parties (COP) kicked off in Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted South-South cooperation and issues of land degradation.
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#1221152019-09-04
Achieving Global Consensus on How to Slow Down Loss of Land
NEW DELHI, Sep 4 2019 (IPS) - Expectation are high, perhaps too high, as the 14th Conference of the Parties (CoP 14) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) now into the third day of its two-week session being held outside the smog-filled Indian capital of New Delhi.
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#1220932019-09-03
FROM THE FIELD: Restoring life to Ghana’s land
Subsistence farmers in Ghana are learning how to hold back the decline in the fertility of the smallholdings they cultivate while revitalizing their soils as desertification increasingly threatens their land and livelihoods.
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#1220152019-08-27
India pledges to restore 50 lakh hectares of degraded land by 2030: Environment Minister
Minister says India will take the lead to combat desertification
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#1219112019-08-15
Namibia made strides to combat desertification
NAMIBIA has made significant strides in implementing the resolutions of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) at national level, a senior official at the environment ministry has said.
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#1218062019-08-06
India to set voluntary target to combat land degradation
"Nearly 30% of land is degraded and we are committed to address this challenge"
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#1217172019-07-26
Money Grows on Trees–Don’t Uproot Them
PEMBA, Zambia, Jul 26 2019 (IPS) - Jennifer Handondo, a small scale farmer of Choma district in southern Zambia, plants food crops such as maize mostly for her family’s needs
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#1216202019-07-18
[Interview] “Avoiding the risk of land degradation is fundamental to any response to climate change”
Barron Joseph Orr, lead scientist at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is at the forefront of the UN body’s efforts to tackle land degradation.
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#1214572019-07-02
Food From Thought
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 2 2019 (IPS) - As the weather continues to change and land becomes degraded, the socio-economic security implications are vast. In an effort to tackle these issues, climate-smart agriculture is quickly gaining traction around the world.
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#1214012019-06-26
Looking to the Land in the Climate Change Race
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 2019 (IPS) - The international community still has a long way to go to chart a new, sustainable course for humanity. But the upcoming climate change meetings provide a renewed opportunity to tackle climate change head on.
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#1213502019-06-18
Desertification ‘More Dangerous and More Insidious than Wars’
ANKARA, Jun 18 2019 (IPS) - Businesses are being encouraged to follow the lead of the youth to halt desertification, reduce degradation, improve agricultural sustainability and restore damaged lands.
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#1213212019-06-17
There’s No Continent, No Country Not Impacted by Land Degradation
ANKARA, Jun 17 2019 (IPS) - The coming decades will be crucial in shaping and implementing a transformative land agenda, according to a scientist at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) framework for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).
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#1213292019-06-17
24 billion tons of fertile land lost every year, warns UN chief on World Day to Combat Desertification
“Desertification, land degradation and drought are major threats affecting millions of people worldwide,” said the UN chief, “particularly women and children.”
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#1213322019-06-17
25 years of protecting our land, biodiversity and climate
Thank you for joining us for the World Day to Combat Desertification.
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#1213342019-06-17
Human-made deserts are drying up our planet
A third of the earth’s landmass is covered by deserts. But the exploitation and deforestation of our land is destroying vast stretches of fertile soil, leading to further desertification.
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#1199762019-02-15
The unexpected little underdogs of the big bad desert
Deserts are harsh ecosystems defined by high daytime temperatures that can dehydrate bodies quickly and low night temperatures that demand warm shelters. Despite the extremes, deserts are sanctuaries to a diversity of life forms. Animals living in these habitats have adopted mechanisms to cope w ...