The view of Langmusi from a hilltop was all the more appreciated knowing that this was a place that could face the consequence of accelerated desertification triggered by climate change.
The focus of tourism pressure on specific areas poses a threat of accelerated desertification.
Come on, people: Can you really find no way to dramatize the extinction of species, the spread of starvation, the accelerating droughts, desertification, floods, and violent storms?
OO Cotton Crops Accelerate Chinese Desertification Being a very water intensive crop, it stresses an increasingly scarce resource, made scarcer with climate change.
Then came a time period when grazing systems and rotations were introduced only to accelerate the rate of desertification in many cases.
The initial reduction in vegetation further reduced rainfall, says Claussen, starting a vicious cycle of desertification that began to accelerate about 4000 years ago.
In the Andes, glaciers are melting so fast that future water supplies are threatened and desertification is accelerated (Bradley et al. 2006; Francou et al. 2011; PAHO 2011).
Desertification is accelerating in China and sub-Saharan Africa, while more frequent flooding and changing patterns of rainfall are already beginning to have a significant impact on agricultural production.
