High-flying observatory reveals land changing to desert
...echnique could become a standard for future global desertification studies." Typically, remote-sensing for ecologi... most important environmental problems of our day, desertification involves complicated interactions among climate, vegetation, and human actions. Unraveling those int...Desertification alters regional ecosystem climate interactions
...echnique could become a standard for future global desertification studies." Typically, remote-sensing for ecologi... most important environmental problems of our day, desertification involves complicated interactions among climate, vegetation, and human actions. Unraveling those int...Arid Australian interior linked to landscape burning by ancient humans
...an Monsoon some 12,000 years ago, resulting in the desertification of the country's interior that is evident today, according to a new study. University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Gifford Miller said the study builds on his research group's previous findings that dozens of giant animal species went extinct i...Assessment of recent rapid land-cover change yields portraits of global human impact
... not support the claim that the African Sahel is a desertification hotspot. The Amazon Basin remains a hotspot of tropical deforestation, the assessment concludes, and rapid cropland increase is prominent in Southeast Asia. But forest degradation is also increasing rapidly in Siberia, mostly as a result of logging, ...Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment
...biodiversity will be available in May; a report on desertification is due out in June; and reports related to wetlands, the role of the private sector and impacts on human health are scheduled for July. According to Mooney, these topics were chosen because the organizations that oversee major international treaties ...Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades
Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the numbe...egions in developing countries. The authors rank desertification land degradation in drylands as a result of climatic factors and human activities among the world'...Researchers offer new insights on arid, semiarid landscapes
...ts of this process, more complete understanding of desertification can be achieved by looking back in time at historic legacies, considering environmental factors and studying soil, typography and soil parent material. Also considered is the influence of wind, water and animals as they transport water, nutrients, so...Yale dean addresses biggest environmental threats in new book
...tes to climate change by releasing carbon dioxide, desertification and other ecological stresses. Among the many consequences of desertification are huge losses in food production, greater vulnerability to drought and famine, ecological refugees...MIT team describes unique cloud forest
... may respond to human activity" that could lead to desertification and the need for reforestation. Eltahir and Hildebrandt, who is now at the UFZ Center for Environmental Research, in Leipzig, Germany, said the unusual forest is an interesting remnant "of a moist vegetation belt that once spread across the Arabian...Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
...o cope with the causes and growing consequences of desertification a creeping environmental crisis that threatens an..."Bad policies are as much to blame for aggravating desertification as climate change, which is also largely human-induced," says conference organizer Zafar Adeel, Dire...Drylands are not the same as badlands
..., can be protected from the irreversible damage of desertification if local residents and managers at all levels woul... these lands. "The culture surrounding topics of desertification has always been embedded in this negativity and pessimism that 'woe is us,' " added Reynolds, a prof...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...er of people at risk of displacement due to severe desertification is an estimated 50 million over the next 10 years ...ation of South Africa or South Korea. Addressing desertification is a critical and essential part of adaptation to climate change and mitigation of global biodiversi...Satellite images reveal link between urban growth and changing rainfall patterns
...t about urban growth or wetlands-it could be about desertification or deforestation-but it's really just this issue o...uch as Ramsar or those dealing with deforestation, desertification and carbon sequestration projects under a climate change agreement.''...