Desertification threatens 24% of the world's land area spanning 126 countries and impacts 35% of the global population. Yet ...

Southern Hungary, once an important site for agriculture, has become increasingly parched. Some local farmers are fighting ...

Farmers lay grass grids in the desert around Kawak Township of Moyu County, Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang ...

MOYU -- Desertification prevention-and-control, one of the top-priority missions in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has issued the national action plan on combating desertification through 2030, ...

The Water Guardians blocked several channel switches along a canal, and brought thousands of gallons of spa water streaming ...

Desertification has been described as “the greatest environmental challenge of our time” and climate change is making it worse. While the term may bring to mind the windswept sand dunes of the Sahara ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a greater effort to tackle desertification as he warned the number of dust clouds hitting the north of the country had increased as a result of climate ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Drylands represent 40 per cent of the world's land mass ...

Preventing and combating desertification is identified as a key task, helping with nature and biodiversity conservation, ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 11, 2026 shows large engineering machines leveling sand dunes at Kawak Township of Moyu ...