desertification

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A growing population will further stress damaged ecosystems, reducing their resilience and increasing the risk of threats like pandemics, soil desertification and biodiversity loss in a downward spiral.

From Scientific American

Meanwhile, in China, agrivoltaics is used to reverse desertification which is literally using solar panels to green former deserts.

From Salon

Eastern Afghanistan’s province of Nuristan is a green oasis in a country largely in the grip of desertification.

From Scientific American

His NANN-K Trust recently opened a solar-powered irrigation project in Senegal to fight desertification, which is one of the main drivers of people leaving on dangerous migration routes.

From Seattle Times

For Juli Pausas, a specialist in fire ecology who researches desertification for the Spanish National Research Council, this was all sadly predictable.

From Seattle Times