Sentences with phrase «about desertification»

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Most people have been hearing warnings about desertification and how the deserts are increasing.

And by taking a cue from the humble yet noxious tumbleweed, science may be able to gather data about desertification in a unique way.

«The problems of food insecurity and poverty are very real, but the notions about desertification and overgrazing are misplaced,» Hanan explained.

Not exact matches

About the environmental aspect, growing acacia trees prevents desertification and deforestation.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

About UNCCD The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the only legally binding international agreement on land issues.

On the continent of Vainqueur about a century ago, a mysterious phenomenon called «desertification» began encroaching from the western side of the continent, turning all land it reaches into sand.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

How about a massacre or food riot in Darfur, whose desertification is linked to global warming?

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

Exploitation of fear about environmental problems kept shifting from ozone depletion, acid rain, desertification, rainforest destruction, global warming, sea level rise, climate change, and climate crisis, among others.

You would hear story after story about clouds and the ongoing threat of increased desertification in the Earth's subtropical zones.

It is a simple discrepancy which must be laid to rest, or there is no way to conclude anything about the system: how were CO2 levels maintained in a tight range over centuries, given all the random influx and egress from volcanic activity, environmental perturbations, deforestation, desertification, fossilization, agricultural trends, wars, oceanic turnover, continental drift, weathering of minerals, fires, floods, etc..., if there is not a fairly strong feedback holding them in place?

Desertification could bring about mass migration as people are forced to leave lands that can no longer support them, posing an «imminent threat to international stability», according to the report's authors.»

He expressed concerns about how climate change was increasing desertification and how pasture grazing was degrading the land, as some 40 million head of livestock live off of land that should support just 30 million.

This is about scarce water resources, desertification and ecological refugees in China.»

Via Eureka Alert Learn More About Land Degradation Agricultural Land Degradation Increasing, Affecting New Areas: FAO Report The Dirt on Soil Erosion China Being Submerged in Sand: Desertification Spreads 1,300 Square Miles Per Year Biofuels, Food, Population Growth to Put Increasing Pressure on Forests Desert Engulfing Nouakchott in Mauritania UN Publishes Satellite Atlas of Africa's Changing Environment

At any moment you might be about to discuss water salinity in Bangladesh, or the acidification of the ocean, or desertification in sub-Saharan Africa.

While I'm not sure about your Antarctica point (global warming would be most intense near the poles), where's the evidence that warming would lead to the cataclysmic desertification portrayed in that map?

Focusing on BC reduction and artificial glacier or glacier nourishment with some happy verbiage about slowing sea level rise and reducing desertification could go a long way to getting people involved in something other than ecoterrorism.