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The organization was awarded for its efforts to prevent further desertification in Africa.

Recent Examples on the Web Around the world, climate change is becoming an epochal crisis, a nightmare of drought, desertification, flooding and unbearable heat, threatening to make vast regions less habitable and drive the greatest migration of refugees in history. — New York Times, "How Russia Wins the Climate Crisis," 16 Dec. 2020 Billionaires and pension funds were never going to save us from the news desertification of the U.S. — Rachel M. Cohen, The New Republic, "The Desperate Last Days of Local News," 14 Dec. 2020 Roberto Atencio, an agronomist from the University of Córdoba, said that if too much salty water is spread over cultivated land, the salt left behind after evaporation can kill the plants and accelerate the irreversible process of desertification. — Agostino Petroni, Environment, "This sacred bean saved an indigenous clan from climate calamity," 25 Nov. 2020 Drought, desertification, colonialism, coups, corruption, poverty and ethnic strife have all taken their toll. — Nick Turse, New York Times, "How One of the Most Stable Nations in West Africa Descended Into Mayhem," 15 Oct. 2020 To determine whether African desertification could be linked to the Southeast Asian megadrought, the researchers simulated the ancient climate, incorporating interactions among the oceans, the atmosphere, dust, and vegetation. — Charles Choi, Science | AAAS, "Ancient megadrought may explain civilization’s ‘missing millennia’ in Southeast Asia," 24 Aug. 2020 Mali is a poor place, struggling under postcolonial burdens, landlocked between seven neighboring countries, at risk of desertification, and fighting an insurgency. — Teju Cole, Condé Nast Traveler, "In Mali, Music Is a Family Legacy," 21 Aug. 2020 With desertification on the rise globally, innovations that allow crops to flourish in arid areas could help shore up the food supply in many countries. — Stephanie Bailey, CNN, "This startup wants to turn Dubai's desert into farmland," 13 Aug. 2020 In fact, 74 US mainland military installations are threatened by sea level rise, drought, desertification, wildfires and thawing permafrost over the next 20 years. — al, "Climate change and COVID-19 -- a promising contrast," 18 May 2020

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