Sentences with phrase «desertification under»
In the paper, Pringle and colleagues warn that this new understanding of termites may mean climatologists have misread how vulnerable some areas are to desertification under various climate change scenarios.
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The list is long and familiar: too much carbon dioxide warming the atmosphere and acidifying the ocean; too much land being cleared, leading to deforestation and desertification; overfishing causing crashes in one stock after another; and habitat destruction reducing biodiversity so drastically that some consider a sixth mass extinction to be under way.
The eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification convened under the theme «A stronger UNCCD for a Land - Degradation Neutral World» in September 2013 in Windhoek, Namibia.
The 2018 World Day to Combat Desertification (# 2018WDCD) urges you to move away from unsustainable land use and make a difference by investing in the future of land under the slogan, «Land has true value — invest in it.»
This year's World Day to Combat Desertification, held under the slogan «Protect Earth.
On the occasion of celebrating the World Day to Combat Desertification in 2017, the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment will hold a workshop in Damascus on 6 July under the theme, «Our Land.
Originally released in 2011 towards the end of the Nintendo DS» life cycle, the time - hopping, desertification - preventing adventure of Stocke and Co. won favor with critics and hardcore fans but generally flew under most folks» radars.
Under BAU [Business As Usual], agriculture and civilization will collapse some time between 2050 and 2055 due to drought / desertification caused by GW [Global Warming].
After years of desertification, its rich biodiversity is under threat and drought has hindered the fight against hunger.
In this regard, ROAM will also enable countries to define and implement national or subnational contributions to the Bonn Challenge and concurrently allow nations to meet existing international commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework to Combat Climate Change.
This in turn also leads to lateral growth of the Walker Cell — and therefore pole - ward migration (on both hemispheres) of the subtropical subsidence zone, where air under downward force is compressed at the Earth surface and semi-perminent high pressure systems lead to strucutural drought and desertification.
Mediterranean - type ecosystems were not explicitly reviewed in the TAR, but threats from desertification were projected due to expansion of adjacent semi-arid and arid systems under relatively minor warming and drying scenarios.