Definition of desertification
: the process of becoming desert (as from land mismanagement or climate change)
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Examples of desertification in a Sentence
The organization was awarded for its efforts to prevent further desertification in Africa.
Recent Examples of desertification from the Web
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And then since one of the issues has to do with migration these days, a lot of the people who are coming out of Africa are coming out because of climate change and desertification.
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Trump signed into law last month a surprisingly strong allocation of $139.5 million for the Global Environment Facility, which supports programs to alleviate a host of environmental ills, including climate change, biodiversity and desertification.
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The logging also adds to desertification, which, in turn, causes conflict across the Sahel, an arid belt below the Sahara.
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And this does not even touch on the secondary effects: desertification, habitat loss and extinctions, resource depletion, pollution, population migrations, and political fallout such as wars and anarchy.
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The difference, Thomas says, is that unlike a hoarder’s pile, ecosystems perform vital planetary functions, like keeping soil fertile, preventing desertification and absorbing carbon dioxide.
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But that struggle is being exacerbated by frequent droughts and advancing desertification in Nigeria’s arid north.
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But as Nigeria’s drought and desertification intensify, so do these preexisting divisions and the conflicts they fuel – a pattern seen globally, in an age of climbing temperatures and dwindling rainfall.
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The desertification of Fossil Lake and its surrounding area, once lush grasslands, Retallack concluded, was a consequence of the extinction of large animals like the Columbian mammoths around 11,500 years ago.
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First Known Use of desertification
1972
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DESERTIFICATION Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of desertification for English Language Learners
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: the process by which an area becomes a desert
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