Sentences with phrase «desertification does»

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When you choose to cloth diaper your baby, whether you are able to do it here and there, half of the time or full time, it reduces deforestation, desertification, and our landfills.

«Our model can help predict if forests are at risk of desertification or other climate change - related processes and identify what can be done to conserve these systems,» he said.

Jef Huisman, an aquatic microbiology professor and theoretical ecologist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, said that the Princeton research shows that recently proposed early - warning signals for the desertification of arid ecosystems can be too simple, and possibly result in projections of future climate change that do not account for the complexity of nature.

The UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique Barbut addressed the audience, explaining how city residents are affected by desertification and what city dwellers can do to reduce the negative impacts of land degradation.

As opposed to the clear - cutting required in most plant agriculture which, of course, does absolutely nothing to the environment because deforestation isn't the first step in desertification.

Global warming caused the melting of the northern polar ice cap, and tropical storms ravage all areas that didn't suffer from desertification.

Though I don't have a link specifically, this month's Sierra magazine discusses «desertification» as another climate change consequence for catastrophe.

But no matter how much mitigation we do we're committed to decades of warming — of floods, storms, desertification, species loss and drought — thanks to past emissions and inertia in the climate system.

The IPCC certainly does make predictions that large amounts of land, especially in Latin America (See WG2 Chapter 13, pages 583 and 597) and some other equatorial areas, will be subject to «desertification processes,» and this would be a serious problem, but I have not seen a claim as dramatic as Mr. Romm's proceed from the IPCC process.

In fact, they not only suffer from the consequences of drought or desertification, but also from the fact that in most cases women do not have rights to land,» she says, before sharing some experiences from Africa where plots of degraded land were restored, but because women did not have rights to the land, they could not stake their claim.

A 43 - year estimate of Asian dust emissions reveals that meteorology and climate have a greater influence on Asian dust emissions and associated Asian dust storm occurrences than does desertification (Figure 7.19; Zhang et al., 2003).

Unlike natural gas plants, small renewable projects do not have devastating environmental and climate impacts that aggravate food and water scarcity and desertification, issues with which much of sub-Saharan Africa already struggles.

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