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·11/8/2010 - Russia's peatland fires seen burning for months, Reuters

·23/7/2010 - Pakistan's drinkers of the dust, Globe and Mail

·20/7/2010 - Nigeria: Federal government to tackle desertification in the north, says Jonathan, Vanguard

·17/7/2010 - When a Billion Chinese Jump by Jonathan Watts | Book review, Guardian

·13/7/2010 - Zimbabwe: 'Holistic grazing' wins sustainable practice award, SciDev.Net

·18/6/2010 - Argentina: Turning Wasteland into Woodland, Inter Press Service

·27/5/2010 - Rats damage huge swathes of China's grasslands, Agence France-Presse

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·United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

·National Geographic: Eye in the Sky - Deforestation and Desertification

·Climate Network Africa

·Forest, Desertification, Land

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1. Desertification a Growing Concern           Rank: 77%

Deserts and Desertification. Forty percent of our planet's land is considered dry land, vulnerable to become arid, infertile and desert-like. The United Nations has called desertification "a major threat to humanity" and "one of the world's most alarming processes of environmental degradation." Moctar Toure works with the Global Environment Facility, an organization of the United Nations and the...
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2. DESERTIFICATION OF ARID LANDS           Rank: 77%

Physics of desertification, ed. F. El-Baz and M. H. A. Hassan. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus, Nijhoff. DESERTIFICATION OF ARID LANDS By H. E. Dregne ABSTRACT Desertification is a land degradation problem of major importance in the arid regions of the world. Deterioration in soil and plant cover have adversely affected nearly 50 percent of the land areas as the result of human mismanagement...
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3. Education kit on combating desertification; 2003           Rank: 76%

Desertification is a wide-ranging problem as it has both natural and human dimensions. It generates environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources that leads to poverty and hunger everywhere. To combat desertification is to contribute to the eradication of poverty. Every one of us can get involved at our own level to combat desertification. Children, who are particularly...
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4. Advance of desertification is a global concern           Rank: 76%

Climate Change, also of the UN. Desertification is a global challenge, as are climate change and the loss of biodiversity. However, desertification still receives little attention when the magnitude of the problem is considered and it is little understood by most people. "Desertification is a difficult process to revert, but it may be prevented," stated Annan in his address. To reach a common...
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5. Desertification, Dust are Global Threats           Rank: 76%

Zafar Adeel, assistant director of the U.N. University's water academy and a lead author of a report drawing on the work of 1,360 scientists in 95 nations. Two billion people live in drylands vulnerable to desertification, ranging from northern Africa to swathes of central Asia, he told Reuters. And storms can lift dust from the Sahara Desert, for instance, and cause respiratory problems for...
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6. Desertification News, Links and Information from Forests.Org           Rank: 76%

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7. Desertification costs world $42bn a year           Rank: 76%

Italian actress Claudia Cardinale. She attended the Tunis conference, drawing attention to the critical need for water in the ecological balance. "Water must become an element of peace and exchange rather than of conflict," Cardinale said, pointing for example to the deforestation of the Amazon region of Latin America. The experts would discuss endangered ecosystems and research on sustainable...
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