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desertification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | geologic process, geological process |
the dust storms in Korea are the result of rapid desertification in China.
Examples of desertification
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Unsuitable agricultural methods may be making the desertification problem worse.
From the guardian.co.uk
Wrong, desertification is less to do with climate than with bad land management.
From the guardian.co.uk
Unless you have some interesting insights on how we can combat desertification.
From the guardian.co.uk
Dust from soil erosion and desertification can also curb local warming effects.
From the newscientist.com
Desertification has been recurrently discussed and questioned since the 1970s.
From the sciencedaily.com
The problem stems from spreading desertification across huge swathes of China.
From the time.com
Two years ago, the Earth Summit called for a convention to combat desertification.
From the newscientist.com
Eventually, this created a rain shadow and brought widespread desertification.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Creeping desertification of farmland in the Midwest, Central Africa, and East Asia.
From the businessweek.com
- The gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land; "the dust storms in Korea are the result of rapid desertification in China"
- Desertification is the degradation of land in arid and dry sub-humid areas due to various factors: including climatic variations and human activitiesNick Middleton and David Thomas, World Atlas of Desertification: Second Edition, 1997. ...
- The process by which semiarid lands turn to desert (also called land degradation). It is caused by prolonged drought, during which time the top layers of soil dry out and blow away.
- The progressive destruction or degradation of existing vegetative cover to form desert. This can occur due to overgrazing, deforestation, drought, and the burning of extensive areas. Once formed, deserts can only support a sparse range of vegetation. ...
- The process in which land slowly dries out until little or no vegetation exists becoming a desert.
- Long-term damage to dry lands caused by drought and by human activities such as over cultivation, deforestation, and poor irrigation practices that turn the land into a desert, unable to grow anything. ...
- Denuding and degrading a once-fertile land, initiating a desert-producing cycle that feeds on itself and causes long-term changes in soil, climate, and biota of an area.
- Degradation of land seen when moist, tropical areas are clear-cut and soil is exposed to direct sunlight; under these conditions, soil loses nutrient value and erodes because there is no cycling of dead leaves/plant material or roots to hold on to the soil; rainfall causes soil to wash away and ...
- When an area begins to develop desert-like conditions due to lack of water, deforestation, overgrazing and over cropping.
