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http://maps.grida.no/go/feedrandom (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The Sahel region of Africa, a belt of savanna ecoregion south of the Sahara desert, stretched from coast to coast. This region is not only known for long spells of drought (and desertification), but also from housing some of the World's poorest countries. Recent trends show good signs on the recovery of the region, and the relative vegetation index (NDVI) presented for the country of Niger in this...
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Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
It used to be regarded as one of Turkey’s best growing regions. However, vast sinkholes are now appearing across what was once the country’s agricultural heartland. Drought, shrinking water levels and more thirsty crops, mean the rich arable land is literally turning to dust. Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Konya, one of the region’s where desertification of [...]
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Environmental Expert.com, via World Resources Institute : Climate change poses a major threat to the world’s 2 billion rural poor, but sustainable natural resource management can help developing countries like Niger adapt to the threat. Droughts and desertification associated with climate change will hit Africa hard. ....In Niger, the Sahara desert has been moving further south into the country’s semi-arid...
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Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Connie Levett; 13/8/08 The farmlands of West Africa look desperate to the untrained eye - sandy, barren and hostile. But despite much talk of desertification as the Sahara’s dunes creep ever southward, a quiet green miracle is taking place. And the efforts of an Australian development worker have provided the impetus for the homegrown project. More [...]
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Just In Just Out (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Environmental problems, such as climate change, pollution, desertification, water scarcity and loss of biodiversity, are among the most serious challenges affecting people's well-being around the globe. While all nations are affected, the poorest countries often bear the greatest burden and have the fewest resources to adapt to changing situations. More...
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http://maps.grida.no/go/feedrandom (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Kara-Bogaz-Gol is a lowland area that forms a highly saline bay on the east side of the Caspian Sea, in Turkmenistan. In Soviet times it was decided to set up a dam to block the flow of saline water from the bay to the Caspian Sea, and this was completed in 1980. Much to everyone’s surprise the Kara-Bogaz-Gol bay dried up 10 times faster than had been forecast by the Institute of Hydraulic Affairs...
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Globalisation and the Environment (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Climate change and stories of droughts and the encroachment of deserts go hand in hand. One related issue that has always intrigued me is whether desertification is a one way street. Once a desert always a desert (due to the removal of top soil etc.). This article from EarthPortal (inbox) sheds some new illuminating light on the topic that certainly informs a lunch time conversation I had recently....
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Global Features (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
Notes on the effect of excessive logging on a small watershed: Our forest farm is situated astraddle a narrow box canyon in the rugged Siskyou Mountains of Southern Oregon and sits less than a mile downstream from the headwaters of the creek that flows down our little canyon towards the mighty Rogue River. Our watershed covers about 400 acres of what used to be heavily forested steep terrain... In...
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The New Security Beat (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Desertification is a serious problem for the land bordering—one might say being swallowed up by—the Sahara desert. But help is on the way for this huge swath of the continent. Three years after the idea was initially floated, the Great Green Wall project , which is intended to slow the Sahara’s southward march, is underway, after being formally approved at the Community of Sahel-Saharan States summit...
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Driive (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
The 25-member African organisation CEN-SAD (Community of Sahel-Saharan States) has initiated a project to build a Great Green Wall across the continent from Mauritania in West Africa to Djibouti in the East. The project is an attempt to stop growing desertification in the northern regions of the continent. Other key objectives of the Great Green Wall initiative include conservation and recovery of...
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http://maps.grida.no/go/feedrandom (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Contrasting rainfall trends have been observed in the north and south. Whereas rainfall over Russia has increased over the last century, already dry areas such as the coasts of Turkmenistan and Iran have become even drier. Dust storms pick up large amounts of salt and dust as they pass over the Kara-Kum desert and the Caspian Sea shore, depositing it in the Volga valley where it impairs the fertility...
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DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Rent It Perhaps the frequent headlines about floods, wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, crop failures, soil depletion, peak oil, rising temperatures, melting icecaps, diminishing fresh water reserves, rapid species extinction, desertification, rapidly-spreading contagions, environmental refugees, and any of a couple dozen other looming natural catastrophes are to blame, or, perhaps it's just the...
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Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
The effects of global warming can be starkly seen in the Sahara desert, where Niger is one of the countries most vulnerable. Al Jazeera’s May Welsh reports from the country, where she found a bedouin tribe fighting possible extinction. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrWCGIlku4
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
UN News Centre : Poor farmers and herders in countries bearing the brunt of desertification and land degradation can help stop or reverse those processes by engaging in sustainable agriculture, the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says. Marking World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, which is observed on 17 June, IFAD said in a statement that poor farmers...
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New Government Speeches (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Deputy Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism, R Mabudafhasi's 2008 Commemoration address for World Day to Combat Desertification 18 June 2008 Deputy Minister of Agriculture MEC of Gauteng Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment Mayor Distinguished guests Members of the media Ladies and gentlemen Introduction Today we gathered to celebrate the important day, 17 June which was...
