The China-Central Asia Cooperation Center for Desertification Prevention has launched a coordinated ecological offensive across Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, deploying advanced ...

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a ...

Nearly one half of the planet's land mass is on the brink of turning into nonarable desert, according to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). These already-arid lands are ...

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

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 ...

Desertification is accelerating under climate change, threatening biodiversity, food security, and human well-being across the Mediterranean Basin, southern Europe, and the Middle East. Water scarcity ...

Desertification is turning fertile land in Africa’s Sahel into expanding desert as the Sahara pushes southward at an alarming ...

Desertification puts the health and well-being of more than 1.2 billion people in more than 100 countries at risk, according to the United Nations. Because dryland desertification can be remedied or ...

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 ...

Imagine you’re on the edge of the Sahara Desert, trying to research the problem of desertification–the spread of new deserts onto farmland and into communities. You need data, but you’re facing ...

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 ...