In a major boost to complete the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative in Africa, development banks and governments pledged a fund of more than $14 billion. French President Emmanuel Macron announced the new funds at the One Planet Summit on Monday. Donors had set a target of $...
This report provides an example of resource regulation with implications for desertification in the Chihuahuan Desert of North America. 2. Female Oncideres rhodosticta beetles chew girdles around mesquite ( Prosopis glandulosa ) stems before ovipositing in those stems. The mesquite plants respond by ...
Most salt-degraded cropland occurs in Asia and southwesternNorth America, which account for 75 and 15 percent of the worldwide total, respectively. In Asia, Iraq has lost over 70 percent of its irrigated land to salt accumulation. In Russia, much of the irrigated land located where theVolga...
It has also occurred in other countries or regions in the world, such as in Belize, Guatemala, Mexico of North America, Israel of the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia, including the Ryukyu Islands of Japan (Ford and Williams, 2007) and Gunung Sewu of Indonesia (Sunkar, 2008). ...
And the regions of Africa, North America, and northern areas of China and India have an increased risk of desertification. The researchers called for a global action plan to reduce the risk of desertification and mitigate the effect of high-risk desertification expansion....
In recent years, mechanized and intelligent technologies such as sand fixation machinery and drone seeding have been widely adopted. "Currently, nearly half of the afforestation in the Three-North project is done mechanically. Science and technology have become a key tool in solving desertification ch...
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A worker paves sand barriers under photovoltaic panels to prevent and control desertification in Kubuqi desert in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on March 13, 2020. Recently, people here resumed their work to pave sand barriers for more than 11,000 mu (some 733 hectares) of Kub...
in localized areas in North Africa's drylands44,45; parts of the arid diagonal in South America46; patches in North America's Mojave, Chihuahuan, and Sonoran deserts43,47; and parts of the Middle East and southwest Asia,43,48 with desert succulent species appearing susceptible to both heat...
There is concern that predicted increases in the frequency of extreme weather events in North America (Clay et al. 2014) or reversal of recent increases in rainfall in the Argentine Chaco (Zak et al. 2008) may result in cropland abandonment and state changes/regime shifts. Even when local ...