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UNEP official calls for ‘coherent planning’ as Aichi falters in Africa

Sophie Mbugua 5 Oct 2017

Healthy soils can boost food security and climate resilience for millions (commentary)

Inger Andersen 6 Sep 2017
Eucalyptus tree. Photo by Bidgee/Wikimedia Commons

Pressure over water in Brazil puts pulp industry in the spotlight

Ignacio Amigo 2 Mar 2017

Bolivia’s second largest lake disappears, due to desertification and contamination

Aldo Orellana López 15 Feb 2016

How termites hold back the desert

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2015

How locals and conservationists saved the elephants of Mali amidst conflict and poverty

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2014

Water crisis widening: 4.5 billion people live near ‘impaired water sources’

Fiona Harvey 28 May 2013

Nearly a million people face food crisis in Niger

Jeremy Hance 13 May 2013

Top security official in Nigeria blames climate change for worsening insecurity

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2013

Scientists give world leaders ‘Fs’ on climate change, biodiversity, and desertification

Jeremy Hance 19 Jun 2012

The vanishing Niger River imperils tourism and livelihoods in the desert

Linda Leila Diatta 4 Jun 2012

Want water? save forests

Jeremy Hance 21 Mar 2011

Great Green Wall gets go ahead

Jeremy Hance 28 Feb 2011

Desertification threatens 38 percent of the world

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2010

Pope Benedict: environmental crisis requires review of world’s economic model

Jeremy Hance 15 Dec 2009

Mirrors in the desert may fight global warming

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2008

Global warming will hurt migratory birds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2007

Looming desertification could spawn millions of environmental refugees

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2006

Disappearing drylands spell trouble says UN

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Mar 2006

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