The Plant a Tree in Minqin campaign aims to project vital areas for irrigation and agriculture with 1 million trees.

Forgotten Water: How Cities Desertify Their Own Territories In modern cities, a silent paradox repeats itself: in countries ...

Ma Fenmei checks the growth of saxaul plants at the Badain Jaran Desert in Alxa Right Banner, the Alxa League of north ...

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A woman has spent decades planting trees in the Maowusu Desert in Inner Mongolia to fight desertification. Her long efforts ...

So, rather than desertification meaning the literal expansion of deserts, it is a catch-all term for land degradation in water-scarce parts of the world. This degradation includes the temporary or ...

Bonn, Germany, 21 February 2024 – This year’s Desertification and Drought Day, observed on 17 June, will focus on the future of land stewardship. Every second, an equivalent of four football fields of ...

A new book asserts that desertification is a meaningless concept and the policies to reverse it are doing more harm than good I started off life as a newspaper journalist, so I appreciate the power of ...

Harmony, or "He," lies at the heart of the Chinese civilization, representing a core spiritual value that has shaped the ethos of the Chinese nation. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist ...

Researchers have measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and which now ...

The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed each year on June 17, as mandated by the United Nations, to combat the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas ...