The Aral Sea, which was once one of the four largest lakes on the planet, has undergone a drastic process of desiccation due to the lack of water supply from its main tributaries. As a result, this body of...
A study recently published in Communications Earth & Environment has revealed that the current desert of Rub al-Jali in Arabia, one of the largest and driest in the world, was once a green and vibrant landscape, with lakes, rivers,...
Chinguetti, an ancient city in Mauritania, houses some of the oldest texts and Quranic manuscripts in West Africa, which could soon be lost due to advanced desertification.
For centuries, poets, scholars, and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading...
Is it possible to find blue lagoons in the middle of a white sand desert? This fascinating phenomenon occurs every year in the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, located in the northeast of Brazil.
In this area, the dunes fill with...
The Amazon Rainforest, considered the lungs of the planet, is facing an unprecedented environmental crisis due to gold mining, which threatens to turn it into a desert. This activity has transformed vast expanses of jungle into arid and sterile...
The **Atacama Desert**, not only is the driest on the planet, but due to **climate change** it is expanding towards the south of Chile. Its natural border is the north of the Coquimbo region, but **the most severe drought...
Desertification is a process of land degradation that causes the loss of biological and economic productivity, turning it into a desert. Concern about this phenomenon is present in various parts of the world, such as Saudi Arabia, which has...
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) revealed a truly alarming fact: half of the Earth's land surface is close to becoming an uncultivable desert.
What does this mean? It means that the planet is undergoing a process of...
The winter arrived in **Saudi Arabia** in an unusual way, as it **dressed the desert** of Al-Jawf in a white blanket, the result of the strange **rock storm that dyed the region white and formed a river of ice**....
