Tag: Desertification
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Expanding Dust Bowls in China and Africa Impact Food Supply
Today two new dust bowls are forming: one in northern China and southern Mongolia and the other in Africa south of the Sahara.
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Planting Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Fight Dangerous Dust Storms in Seoul
Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.
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Ultramarathoners Running 10,000-Kilometer Silk Road Route to Raise Awareness About Water Shortages
Seventy-two days after setting out from Istanbul, champion distance runner Kevin Lin Yi Jie and a small team of other athletes have covered 4,434 kilometers of their 10,00-kilometer goal: Running the
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Great Green Wall of Africa Given Green Light - Billions in Funding Pledged
For some time we've had our eyes on proposals to build a monumental wall of trees across Africa to hopefully stop or at least slow the Sahara spreading southward. Well, the Great Green Wall has been given the green light. As Mongabay reports, in total
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TEEB Little Things by Lawrence Chen (Video)
This morning on the Spanish blog Resseny I came across this simple yet beautiful video called "Little Things" by Lawrence Chen. I like the way it gets the message across gracefully, using little resources to make the movie. It is poetic and makes you
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China's Desertification Will Take Three Centuries to Reverse
An area of China the size of Rhode Island is being lost to desertification each year, with 38% of all the land on Earth in danger of following suit.
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Breathtaking Satellite Photos Showcase the Fragile Earth as Art (Slideshow)
High above the earth hover satellites; their eyes trained on the surface, capturing images from a perspective few humans will
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Breathtaking Satellite Photos Showcase the Fragile Earth as Art
High above the earth hover satellites; their eyes trained on the surface, capturing images from a perspective few humans will ever experience. Besides their unique position, these satellites are capable of discerning details the human eye misses. The in
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Barcelona Design Week 2010: D-Lab's 4 Designs Against Poverty (Photos + Videos)
At today's lecture "Facing New Challenges Through Design" as part of Barcelona Design Week, I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab, presented by Victor Grau Serrat from
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Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms
Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region
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Scientist Solves Mystery of Fertile Persian Gulf
On land, a fierce dust storm blots out any sign of life. But offshore, these banes of desert-dwellers' existence can be providers of life in what might otherwise be empty waters,
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Half of Earth Will Be Uninhabitable by 2300, Study Says
Three hundred years ago, the Age of Enlightenment spread notions of reason, democracy, and scientific progress throughout much of the world. From that time, our global civilization has come a long way, through many -isms and revolutions on to the
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Thirsty Yet? In LA, Annenberg Space Photo Exhibit Explores Water Issues
Before and after shots of our vanishing water depict a dramatic display through inspiring imagery at the "Water: Our Thirsty World" exhibit at
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November Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
November was a
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Climate Change Puts the Reality in This TV Show
At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical
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Keeping Sewage Out of Turkey's Salt Lake
The primary source of water flow into Tuz Lake is neither rivers nor rainfall, but sewage from the nearby city of Konya and local villages and towns--and the pollution is not only killing the
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Seedbomb Instills Fear And Plants Trees
The Seedbomb, an unintentional eco-terrorist, is a non-military "bomb" designed for protecting the earth.
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Rainforests: Lungs AND Heart of the Planet?
Images via: Getty Images New Scientists reports this month a possibly controversial finding that not only are rainforests giant carbon sinks of the planet (lungs), but they may also be responsible for moving (heart) many of the weather patterns we see
