Amy Goodman

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

American Journalist

Jamais Cascio

Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.

American Writer

Gunter Grass

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

German Author

Magnus Larsson

The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.

Swedish Athlete

Emphasize desertification often results from human actions, not just natural events.

Human Causes

Recognize that desertification affects many countries, not just those with existing deserts.

Global Issue

Understand that desertification can often be prevented or reversed with sustainable practices.

Preventable Problem

 intense grazing of cattle you could emulate what happened with ancient herds and basically give grasslands the the churn and the nutrients that they need to grow and avoid desertification and a lot of people would said wow that's the most hopeful thing I've heard in ages

Avoiding desertification...

 That's the kind of forced migration that desertification can lead to. If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away, and abandon your home and your life as you know it.

Magnus Larsson: Turning...

 shows that if we had accounted for these costs -- the cost of loss of topsoil, the cost of loss of waterways, the lost productivity, the loss to local communities as a result of all these factors, desertification and so on -- those costs are almost twice as much

Pavan Sukhdev: Put a...

 of the land by plants that helped create the benign climate we currently enjoy. The converse is also true. The more vegetation we lose, the more that's likely to exacerbate climate change and lead to further desertification. And this animation,

Michael Pawlyn: Using...

 and Wildlife organizations that want priorities be put on native species the horses don't have a place to go there is not enough adopters they virtually have no predators and over grazing is real over grazing leads to desertification it

Why Four Cowboys Rode...

 And the numbers of people living in an area that the land cannot support, who are too poor to buy food, who can't move away because the whole land is degraded. And so you get desertification -- creeping, creeping, creeping --

Helping humans and...

 But by practicing responsible agriculture, better management of limited water resources, and limiting further development, it may be possible to curb desertification while protecting our surprisingly rich desert ecosystems.

Deserts 101 PIPE National...

 As desertification and war impoverished the region, families held on to the ancient books even as they faced desperate poverty and near-starvation. Even today, the struggle to protect the books continues.

The hidden treasures of...

 are expected to migrate due to desertification. This is the biggest global wave of migration since the Second World War, and it's only set to grow. So far this year,

A forgotten ancient...

 Carbon goes back to the atmosphere. Now you're told over and over, repeatedly, that desertification is only occurring in arid and semi-arid areas of the world,

Desertification