How to Use desertification in a Sentence

desertification

noun
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  • 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
  • What will the rate of desertification of the Sahara be?, for example.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2021
  • As the planet warms, weather patterns change, and lakes and rivers dry up as desertification takes hold.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The biggest problem is desertification and trying to protect the thin topsoil from the winds.
    — Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2015
  • Billionaires and pension funds were never going to save us from the news desertification of the U.S.
    — Rachel M. Cohen, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Li of Greenpeace said that for the past two years sandstorms, caused by weather patterns and desertification, have occurred outside of the normal season, in the summer as well as the fall.
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Al Shammari works at the Fedek garden, then returns to his home in a bustaan, a farm with date palms, pomegranates, eggplants, beans, livestock, that serve as a desertification buffer.
    — Time, 16 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • This process of rapid local climate change and desertification has been discussed at least since the 1970s, when prevailing science warned of a coming ice age.
    — John Rossomando, National Review, 21 June 2021
  • Widespread desertification in Northern Africa and stronger winds over the Mediterranean could be making these dust events more intense, research has shown.
    — Monica Garrett, CNN, 16 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And with desertification expanding in many parts of North Africa, being able to live in and around the desert is actually growing in its relevance.
    — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2017
  • The clip opens with a depressing look at a future Earth that has undergone desertification.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The desertification of America’s farmland is not the first.
    — Astra Lincoln, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Go on an overnight camping trek to the towering dunes of the Kumtag Desert, and learn about local efforts to prevent encroaching desertification.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • By the end of this decade, scientists and models predict that hurricanes and droughts will push people across borders and into refugee camps, many of which will be in areas made flammable by desertification.
    — David Alexander, The New Yorker, 28 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Great Green Wall, a massive tree-planting effort aimed at slowing desertification, has been underway for years.
    — Suman Naishadham, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • 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 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
  • But on the whole, the report finds that climate change is already hurting the availability of food because of decreased yields and lost land from erosion, desertification and rising seas, among other things.
    — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019

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