Sentence examples for increased desertification from inspiring English sources

There would be flash floods, droughts, famines, storms, increased desertification of semi-arid regions, and frequent fires ravaging global forests.

This destabilisation of global weather patterns then fed into a complex cycle of more intense and prolonged droughts in drought-prone regions, which in turn caused more frequent and more vicious wildfires, increased desertification of agricultural land, and was now affecting river levels in the Amazon.

But Somalia in particular has other ailments, including rapid population growth, with many girls not staying in school and having children early, insufficient farming investment thanks to the insecurity of two decades of war, increased desertification, because the burning of charcoal in the south has led to a lack of tree cover, and an absence of governance.

The cultivation of semi-arid regions encourages erosion of soil and is one of the causes of increased desertification.

Expansion of agricultural activities will possibly threaten the local water balance and cause increased desertification.

In the northern region, increased desertification has seen the expansion of the Sahara desert southward, while pressure from population growth has made the area increasingly fragile.

Dust storms in the region, exacerbated by increasing desertification in Inner Mongolia, are common in April and May.

During the late 1900's, the Sahel region of Africa has been faced with problems resulting from... a. increasing desertification b. the lack of rainfall from the monsoons c. the effects of acid rain d.

Such a rise would probably increase desertification, droughts, forest fires and the widespread death of animals, such as dolphins, from disease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

According to climate trends, there were an increasing desertification and loss of biodiversity which might get even worse due to the current weather and conflict conditions (Ministry of State for Environment Affairs MSEAA) 2012).

Dust-storms are an environmental phenomenon that transcends boundaries and their growing intensity and frequency-as a result of increasing desertification and decreasing vegetation coverage-has a tremendous negative impact on national and regional human and socio-economic development.