Sentence examples for desertification from from inspiring English sources

Philip Thornley St Weonards Hereford Argentina, which once possessed one of the richest agricultural soils in the world, is facing soil depletion, soil structure degradation and initial desertification from growing GM crops.

In order to assess temporal spatial variability of desertification from 1986 through 1993 to 2003 in an agro-pastoral transitional zone of northern Shaanxi, China, satellite images were interpreted and analyzed along with meteorological and socio-economic data.

In addition to Japanese imperial policies and the day-to-day use of land by herders and farmers, the emerging role of science in measuring and analyzing land is also important, Christmas said, so her work will include an examination of the role of science, as well as environmental aspects such as desertification from careless use.

The awards were presented at a conference of more than 300 experts on desertification from 30-plus countries.

In addition, many of these same countries have been devastating their natural resources through deforestation (for firewood and slash-and-burn agriculture), soil exhaustion and erosion, desertification from overgrazing and loss of soil fertility from overproduction or misuse of land.

The IPCC determined that the mediterranean biome as a whole is threatened by desertification from expansion of semi-arid and arid system under relatively minor warming and drying scenarios, and projects significant regional vegetation and species range shifts [28].

Desertification resulting from land-use affects large dryland areas around the world, accompanied by carbon loss.

These land cover maps revealed that the area subject to land degradation in the form of soil salinization, waterlogging and desertification increased from 2400 to 4214 km2, in sharp contrast to most severely degraded land that decreased by 122.5 km2.

Coincident with these events global temperatures cooled in both the ocean and atmosphere, desertification occurred from Central Asia into and across most of northern Africa and also in Australia, and in southern South America.

Environmental issues facing Bahrain include desertification resulting from the degradation of limited arable land, coastal degradation (damage to coastlines, coral reefs, and sea vegetation) resulting from oil spills and other discharges from large tankers, oil refineries, distribution stations, and illegal land reclamation at places such as Tubli Bay.

The annual of expansion of land desertification increased from 1 600 km2 in the 1970s to 2 100 km2 during the 1980s.