STORY: This gardening volunteer is attempting to fight one of Iraq’s most pressing threats: desertification. It’s where fertile land dries up and becomes desert, forcing people to move, according to ...

For more than four decades, China has been working to halt the spread of desertification through the Three-North Shelterbelt ...

UN talks aimed at halting the degradation and desertification of vast swathes of land started in Saudi Arabia on Monday after scientists fired a stark warning over unsustainable farming and ...

Inigenous Yagua people are forced to travel long distances to fetch water after drought in the upper Amazon valley cut the river's flow by 90 percent, according to Colombian authorities. — Luis ACOSTA ...

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 ...

Some one billion people globally under the age of 25 live in regions where they depend on the land and natural resources for jobs and livelihoods, but their future is increasingly under threat due to ...

Residents in Balkh Province are benefiting from improved quality of healthcare provided in health facilities across the province. China has been severely impacted by desertification, with over ...

Federal Government has decried the spread of desertification in large swathes in the North, warning that the crisis poses severe risks to food security, livelihoods, and the environment. Minister of ...