Africa dramatically dried out 5,500 years ago — our new study may warn us of future climate tipping points

Before northern Africa dried out, its climate “flickered” between two stable climatic states before tipping permanently

Silent Chernobyl: Dry Aral Sea has made Central Asia dustier, with impacts on global climate, says study

Not only does the dust of the Aralkum Desert left in place of the Aral endanger residents, it also can accelerate the melting of glaciers …

Simply put: Droughts disastrous for agriculture

Simply put: Billions needed to combat desertification

Simply Put: Increasing desertification

Simply put: Green Climate Fund

Simply put: Desertification across India

Simply put: Degrees of desertification

UNCCD CoP: Centre unclear how states are spending money allotted for forests

The 14th Finance Commission had given 7.5 per cent weightage to forest cover

Simply put: More than 75% of earth's land area is already degraded

Preventing desertification

UNCCD COP14: Desertification, land degradation hit poor hardest

Climate change drives migration but many can’t even move out: Report 

Modi bats for South-South ties, plastic ban at UNCCD meet

PM raises land reclamation target to 26 mln hectares by 2030

How India lost its finest Banni grasslands to an exotic species called Prosopis Juliflora

Simply Put: COP 14 Combat desertification

KAMPUCHEA

Precinct in the sand

A university of desert knowledge

Book Review: The Garden of their Dreams by Brian Griffith

100 million hectares of arable land lost yearly to degradation, shows UN report

Eastern and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean regions experience the most severe degradation

Invest $1.7 trillion in nature-based solutions to adapt to climate change: UNCCD report

The investment would give four times the return on investment, it said  

Strong nexus between land use and drought: UNCCD report

It also called for the management of land and drought to be fundamentally linked

Shadow of storms

The fact is that storms of 2018 hold a mirror to our future

Desertification has increased in 90 per cent of states in India

Increased drying of soil will further precipitate the agrarian crisis in the country

Sands of controversy

Africa had several tense moments before it could get the desertification convention through

Simply Put: Vladimir’s deterrent