Search results for "Desertification" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Africa has become drier. A reminder of the desertification of the area is provided by megalithic remains, which occur in a great variety of forms and ...
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  • of North Africa, due to small population and desertification * Santa Cruz Tarweed (Holocarpa macradenia), of California, due to limited range ...
    22 KB (2,981 words) - 16:35, 5 January 2021
  • course of their protracted struggle against desertification. Elementary school education has been made universal among the Hui. In Hui-populated ...
    26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
  • issues include deforestation and desertification. Water-borne diseases are prevalent. Poverty and low agricultural productivity are widespread. ...
    24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
  • T. S. Chouhan, Desertification in the World and Its Control (Scientific ... * Chouhan, T. S. Desertification in the World and Its Control. Scientific ...
    54 KB (7,582 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
  • that could no longer sustain them due to desertification and other environmental changes. The foundation worked with Swiss specialists to develop ...
    29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
  • of the land over time, potentially leading to desertification. The patent protection given to companies that develop new types of seed using genetic ...
    27 KB (3,893 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
  • The northern regions have been subject to desertification, and the northeast is desert. The remainder of the country is prone to flooding from nearby ...
    29 KB (4,266 words) - 23:52, 3 December 2023
  • occupied by extreme ecosystems has occurred (desertification). ==References== * Alberts, B., et al. 2002. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition ...
    36 KB (5,345 words) - 01:14, 18 November 2022
  • fertile farmland soils, while contributing to desertification. Only some pine at high elevations and mangroves remain due to their inaccessibility. Erosion ...
    32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
  • supplies of potable water, and desertification is a problem. The lowest point is Lac Assal (−155 m) and the highest is Moussa Ali (2,028 m ...
    32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
  • that accumulations of DOR played a role in desertification and designed a "cloudbuster" with which he said he could manipulate streams of ...
    34 KB (4,898 words) - 20:11, 17 November 2023
  • overgrazing, soil erosion, desertification, and overfishing. === Climate === The local climate is tropical with well-defined dry and humid seasons ...
    33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
  • placed on nomadization, and desertification exacerbated by global warming and the increased firewood needs of growing cities. Today, some Tuareg ...
    37 KB (5,635 words) - 16:06, 27 July 2021
  • Environmental issues include desertification, salination of fresh water, inadequate sewage treatment, water-borne disease, soil degradation, ...
    33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
  • arizona.edu/~lmilich/desclim.html Desertification]. Retrieved May 16, 2008. *O'Grada, Cormac. 2000. Black '47 and Beyond: The Great ...
    36 KB (5,441 words) - 00:40, 25 March 2024
  • a result of overgrazing, deforestation, and desertification), loss of wildlife, species extinction, soil degradation, soil depletion, erosion, and the ...
    38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
  • rywaghorn/2011/03/07/fighting-desertification/#1f40dd485fd7 Fighting Desertification] Forbes, March 7, 2011. Retrieved September 17, 2019. ...
    89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
  • of the Rann of Kutch threatens to increase desertification around the city area and much of the state. Except for the small hills of Thaltej-Jodhpur ...
    41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
  • modern historians question whether hunger and desertification, rather than jihad, was a motivating force in the conquests. The famous historian William ...
    48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022

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