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Risk of sea desertification challenges Vietnam
2016-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Viet Nam Net: Climate change is one of the reasons behind sea desertification. It warms the air temperature and sea water and lowers nitrogen, phosphorus and oxygen concentration, thus paving the way for the formation of a dead sea area or desertification of the sea. Sea desertification is a new terminology used to describe the area where all sea creatures cannot live because of poor natural conditions, water quality and land. According to experts from the General Department of Sea and Islands, there...
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Why Is Desertification Alarming? Facts About The Land Condition Affecting Millions of People Worldwide
2016-06-17 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Land, by all means, is a major resource asset as it provides a foundation for economic growth and for poverty reduction. As the world's population increases, land becomes increasingly valuable, which only means any form of land degradation is a threat to us all. Desertification is one of the major problems adversely affecting the quality of the land. As defined by Green Facts, desertification is the persistent degradation of dryland ecosystems by variations in climate and human activities. To promote...
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Desertification: The people whose land is turning to dust
2015-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The UN predicts over 50 million people will be forced to leave their homes by 2020 because their land has turned to desert. This is already happening in Senegal, writes Laeila Adjovi. Cattle herder Khalidou Badara took me up a hill in Louga, northern Senegal, to describe to me how his area has changed. "When I was a child, I did not even dare to walk up to here because the vegetation was so dense. "But these past few years, the wind and sand have been taking over. "There are almost no...
Nigeria: 70m affected by desertification, drought'
2015-09-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: Over 70 million people living in the North have experienced the negative impact of drought and desertification directly or indirectly, the Federal Government has said. The government has embarked on tree planting in 11 states to curb desertification. The Director-General, National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW), Mr. Goni Ahmed, who spoke during a visit to Sokoto State by members of the agency, said six-kilometre of shelterbelt, two hectares of orchards and one hectare of community...
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Soil secrets: Fertile ground to combat desertification
2014-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Mirror: OVER a billion people will watch. The 2014 Football World Cup Final on July 13 is likely to be the worlds most-watched television event in history. This impressively shows just how connected the world became, via the TV, or the Internet with more than 2 billion users online. Then again this number is only greeted with weary smiles by some other creatures, who might not update their Facebook status as often, but are way more connected than us. They already invented the social network when life...
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