UNCCD's landmark new World Drought Atlas depicts the systemic nature of drought risks through dozens of maps, infographics, ...

Just over 75 percent of the world's land has been left "permanently drier" over the previous three decades, a UN-backed report coinciding with COP16 talks on desertification in Saudi Arabia said on ...

Environment, Urban Planning and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum will unveil Türkiye’s national strategy and action plan ...

Desertification is a form of land degradation by which fertile land loses much of its biological — and economic — productivity, and becomes desert. Today, up to 40% of the world's land is ...

The Taklimakan covers 337,600 square km, making it China's largest desert and the world's second-largest shifting desert, according to Xinhua. The completion of the ecological barrier around the ...