Sentence examples for increasing desertification from inspiring English sources

Under the Roman Empire, Libya had been an area of rich farmland, but increasing desertification had impoverished the land.

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.

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.

One such area is the Mediterranean region of SE Spain, where the climatological and lithological conditions, together with the relief of the landscape and anthropological activity, including agricultural abandonment, are responsible for increasing desertification.

"If we begin to think about each site as self-regenerative and consider closed-loop cycles for our water, I assure you we would be further away from the increasing desertification of our landscapes," Boyter says.

Temperature rises will lead to increased desertification, higher ocean acidification and migration of marine species to higher latitudes.

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

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).

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.