desertification

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the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land

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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. Amy Goodman

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

the dust storms in Korea are the result of rapid desertification in China Source: Internet

A 2005 study by Australian and American researchers investigated the desertification of the interior, and suggested that one explanation was related to human settlers who arrived about 50,000 years ago. Source: Internet

By the late 1980s, desertification had fundamentally altered agro-pastoral and human settlement patterns. Source: Internet

By the mid-1990s, an estimated 60% of the republic's pastureland was in various stages of desertification. Source: Internet

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