Nitrogen? Warming?

Enough of carbon talks. Heres a new element with potential

Blowing in the wind

Answers to why dust storms  are on the rise in East Asia  

Chillout zone

Darfur pays for its water

In 2006, Slovenian president Janez Drnov?ek sent filmmaker and political activist Tomo Kriznar as a peace envoy to war-torn Darfur. US pressure …

Drought forces Egyptians into felling trees

Desert healer

Ruhi Kandhari travels to a cold desert in Himachal Pradesh to see how a former bureaucrat is greening it

Lexical conundrum: Desertification does not allude to deserts

Today, desertification just means a reduction in the productivity of the land that is not reversible

Why is snowfall in the Sahara getting more frequent?

There are speculations that rare snowfall in the Sahara desert this time is due to climate change

Desert green

A gene found in humans can help plants thrive in arid regions

Heat and dust

Dust aggravates drought in Africa

India desertified

Map of India to change soon. Courtesy: climate change

There is a desert in Tamil Nadu and the dunes are red

There are a couple of theories regarding the formation of these dunes, the most plausible being the role of south west monsoonal winds

Sands of time

Large portions of cultivable land may be lost to the desert in northwest China by end-1997

An ancient system that could bring water to dry areas

An ancient system of drawing water from aquifers “qanat system” could help Africa's dry areas faciing water shortages

Desert blooms

Halophytes - plants growing on saline soil - could be India's Answer to the problems of salt desert and wasteland reclamation, besides Being …

Community-managed pond offers sustainable solutions to arid Barmer village

Rajasthan is prone to water insecurity during heat waves and heavy rainfall, where ponds and lakes dry up and groundwater gets over-exploited

Treeless forest

How shrimp cultivation turned a mangrove forest into a saline desert

Humans may have transformed the Sahara from lush paradise to barren desert

The world's biggest desert used to be green, lush and full of hippos. A new theory suggests humans could have tipped the environment over the edge

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Fences along Mexico-US border

How communities in China helped keep desertification at bay

A fast-ageing population could deter efforts to achieve the United Nation’s target of zero land degradation by 2030

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