Spain is drying up. Over 74% of its territory is now in the process of desertification, and regions like Andalusia, Murcia, and Valencia may soon become irreversible wastelands. Once Europe’s thriving ...

Deserts are hard to reclaim because plants cannot survive on shifting sand, but scientists in northwest China are changing that – by dropping vast amounts of blue-green algae onto the dry terrain.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Hungary’s Great Hungarian Plain faces severe desertification as groundwater depletes and droughts intensify, ...

Oszkár Nagyapáti, farmer and member of the volunteer water guardians, stands in a hole in Kiskunmajsa, Hungary, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos) (AP) Oszkár Nagyapáti is a farmer and ...

Kiskunmajsa, Hungary — Oszkár Nagyapáti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his hand, looking for a sign of groundwater that in ...

Oszkár Nagyapáti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his hand, looking for a sign of groundwater that in recent years has been in ...

An important carbon sink with an enormous capacity to infiltrate water into the soil and ensure the replenishment of aquifers in Brazil’s semi-arid region, the caatinga is the country’s biome most ...

Officials and experts from China and Africa on Sunday called for stronger scientific and technological cooperation to address desertification and land degradation, urging closer coordination to ...

Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its 2,800-mile-long northern border, and it wants to plant 34 billion more over the next 25 years to complete its "Great Green Wall." ...

Discover how Africa is combatting the encroachment of the Sahara Desert in this insightful video. Australia makes £4.5 trillion mineral discovery Go away! Countries that want to reduce the number of ...