Environmental Science
Mechanisms of Desertification and Land Degradation
Quick fact
Desertification affects about 2 billion people globally and is happening on every continent except Antarctica, turning 12 million hectares of productive land into desert each year.
Why this is interesting
Have you ever seen a lush grassland turn into barren sand? What unseen forces can transform thriving soil into a dust bowl, and how does this process accelerate once it begins?