How to Use desertification in a Sentence

desertification

noun

• The organization was awarded for its efforts to prevent further desertification in Africa.
• And if it is not stopped, the process can lead to desertification.
  — Rohit Inani, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2019
• The area is at high risk of desertification due to forest fires.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2022
• As the planet warms, weather patterns change, and lakes and rivers dry up as desertification takes hold.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2019
• Without these trees and their root system, the process of desertification will start to occur.
  — Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
• The biggest problem is desertification and trying to protect the thin topsoil from the winds.
  — Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2015
• What will stem the expansion of local news desertification is unclear, though there’s no dearth of initiatives.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2022
• Much of Spain’s land now faces climatic conditions that could lead to desertification.
  — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2023
• The clip opens with a depressing look at a future Earth that has undergone desertification.
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• Even with increasing global desertification due to climate change on the horizon, though, research on how ecosystems will adapt is scant.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• The Asian nation is one of many places in the world grappling with worsening drought and desertification amid global climate change.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
• But land restoration can reverse the creeping tide of degradation, drought and desertification.
  — Philip Lymbery and Leticia Carvalho, TIME, 7 June 2024
• Predictably, the droughts caused desertification and altered the balance of power between farmers and herders.
  — Tarek Ghani, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2020
• Some scholars say that this policy is misguided, and that animal grazing is not the main cause of desertification.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 29 June 2017
• As a result, Iceland is a case study in desertification, with little or no vegetation, though the problem is not heat or drought.
  — Author: Henry Fountain, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Oct. 2017
• There, a dearth of job opportunities and an increase in desertification had led to crop failures and migration away from the semi-arid land.
  — Tom Watkins, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Poaching and desertification had a devastating effect in the past, and those factors haven’t gone anywhere.
  — Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
• Poaching and desertification had a devastating effect in the past, and those factors haven’t gone anywhere.
  — Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Go away politicians, go away college admissions, go away desertification.
  — Kate Colby october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
• Over time, these fields return nutrients and moisture to the soil and act as a barrier against the increasing creep of desertification – stopping dust and sand in their tracks.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2017
• Much of Brazil’s vast northeast is, in effect, turning into a desert — a process called desertification that is worsening across the planet.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2021
• 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, 13 Aug. 2020
• As fewer trees grow due to the mounting heat and aridity—or are cut down in rampant urban development—the soil erodes, leading to desertification.
  — Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• The hotter climate can cause areas to dry out — something known as desertification — creating more dust in the air, which can lead to breathing problems, drought and wildfires.
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2023
• The impact of desertification is not limited to the western states, however.
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2023
• The birds have been threatened by drought and increasing desertification on the island, conditions that may worsen as a result of global climate change.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• After the separation of South Sudan, a third of the country is a desert right now, and desertification is moving very fast.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• 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.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 11 Apr. 2018
• But forests are diminishing through exploitative logging practices as well as the process of desertification, which turns grassland and shrubland arid.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2023
• The logging also adds to desertification, which, in turn, causes conflict across the Sahel, an arid belt below the Sahara.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018