Sentence examples for rapid desertification from inspiring English sources

The country is vulnerable to rising sea levels and rapid desertification.

It is set in the future, at a time when extended drought and rapid desertification have turned much of the American West into one "mega-dune," known as the Amargosa, after the first mountain range it consumed.

SEE was founded in 2004 by some of China's notable entrepreneurs, including Liu Xiaoguang, the head of the state-owned financial services and real estate firm Beijing Capital Group, and Wang Shi, founder and CEO of Vanke, the world's largest real estate developer, in response to the rapid desertification of the Tengger Desert in northern China.

Tazarotene is a retinoid prodrug that is converted to its active form, the cognate carboxylic acid of tazarotene, by rapid desertification in animals and man.

Akhtar (1993) mentioned that the disorganized use of grazing lands by all ethnic groups in the Butana has led to a rapid spread of desertification since the 1970s, accelerated further by the droughts of the 1980s.

Truly arid landscapes appear some time towards the end of the Miocene, and more recently, dramatic changes to the terrestrial environment occurred during the Quaternary period, when glacial-interglacial cycling drove a rapid increase in desertification.

Whereas a slow reduction in rainfall would allow the shrub patches to be maintained below this critical rainfall level, rapid changes would cause immediate desertification.

As might be expected, this population increase is coupled with rapid urbanization, agricultural development, and desertification (caused by heavy grazing) across Central and East Asia.

Although humid climate and sustainable development strategy would reduce desertified land area and desertification degree before 2025, the rapid increase in pasturage pressure would offset this trend.

In particular, collapsing-gully erosion produces a large amount of sediment deposited on the plough layer of alluvial fan farmland and causes increase of desertification, great reduction of nutrients and rapid enhancement of erodibility in the soil.

Trees stabilise the soil, prevent rapid run-off of rain water, help prevent desertification, have a role in climate control and help in the maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem balance.