Desertification and Dust stormas

Turkmenistan is initiating the creation of a Regional Center to Combat Desertification for Central Asian countries and will also promote the Caspian Environmental Initiative.

Speech by the President of Turkmenistan at the plenary meeting of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly Dear Chairman, Distinguished heads and members of delegations, ladies and gentlemen, First of all, let me congratulate you on the beginning of the 80th session of the United Nations General

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September 25, 2025

Restoring Sustainable Landscapes. A Contract Signed between CAREC and the Forestry Agency under the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Within the framework of the project “RESILAND CA+: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscape Restoration”, the Forestry Agency under the Ministry of Ecology, environmental protection and climate change of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC) signed a three-year contract to strengthen regional cooperation.   The RESILAND

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July 23, 2025

Saigas Displace Livestock, Destroy Crops: Kazakh Farmers Demand Regulation

In the West Kazakhstan region, a meeting was held between the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources  of the Republic of Kazakhstan  , Erlan Nysanbayev, and farmers and peasant farms of the region, during which the minister listened to numerous appeals about the catastrophic damage  to agricultural lands caused by saigas. Farmers in the West

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July 16, 2025
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Warming accelerates global drought severity

Warming accelerates global drought severity Solomon H. Gebrechorkos, Justin Sheffield, Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Chris Funk, Diego G. Miralles, Jian Peng, Ellen Dyer, Joshua Talib, Hylke E. Beck, Michael B. Singer & Simon J. Dadson Nature volume 642, pages628–635 (2025)Cite this article 34k Accesses 891 Altmetric Metricsdetails Abstract Drought is one of the most common and complex

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June 23, 2025

June 17 – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

June 17 – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought   Source:  depositphotos.com June 17, 1994, marked the adoption of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Paris.June 17 is recognized globally as the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, established by the United Nations to raise awareness

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June 17, 2025

UNCCD launches first ever Soil Data Portal for 126 countries

Every year, tens of millions of hectares of productive land are lost to degradation worldwide   . According to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), between 2015 and 2019, annual global land loss was at least  100 million  hectares, which is equivalent to twice the area of ​​Greenland. To make this data widely

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May 14, 2025

UNCCD Data Dashboard

A site where core topics under our mission and mandate can be explored through the information submitted by country Parties in their national reports during the 2022 reporting process Land degradation and drought Resources mobilized to combat desertification, land degradation and drought People exposed to land degradation and drought National

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May 13, 2025
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