The African Union is holding the first ever international conference on the Great Green Wall in Dakar this week. The goal is to map out a strategy to stop desertification in the Sahel-Sahara region, ...

More than 200 experts, academics and policymakers discussed how to counter desertification at an international forum in Seoul on June 10. The Korea Forest Service and “People Planting Tree,” a ...

The ever-widening deserts of the Arab World will be in the spotlight this week as young people gather in Cairo to discuss reining in the pressing problem. The first session of the second Arab Youth ...

In arid regions, strong winds can create high levels of dust aerosols—a mixture of dust, salt, bacteria, and toxic metals—that pollute the environment. Dust aerosols can affect a wide region as ...

The Spanish Government says it will plant 45 million trees over the next four years to counter desertification caused by global warming. The massive tree-planting scheme aims to reduce the amount of ...

"We really suffer with the sandy dune-storms. It's hard for the elderly and the children to breathe," says al-Azawy, who is an environmental staffer at Iraq's agriculture ministry. She says tanks and ...

When Abbas Gandi lost a large portion of his crops to the combined ravages of desertification and drought a few years ago, he was so disillusioned he considered abandoning his 10-hectare farmland. "It ...

The Geographical Journal has been published since 1831, and was the Society's journal of report until the relaunch in 2000. It has the highest circulation of any British academic journal in its field ...