Likely Spread of Deserts to Fertile Land Requires Quick Response, U.N. Report Says
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Enough fertile land could turn into desert in the next generation to create an âenvironmental crisis of global proportions.â
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Desertification represents the "greatest environmental challenge of our times", the UN warns in a report.
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization says widespread breeding of desert locusts continues in West Africa and new swarms are being formed.
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A Bush administration report suggests that evidence of global warming has begun to affect animal and plant populations in visible ways, and that rising temperatures in North America are due in part to human activity.
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Science & environment: . 'Ignorance, need and greed' depleting soil . Experts warn competition will lead to conflict.
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Ministry of Agriculture expresses hope temperature drop and change in windâs direction would assist in overcoming problem. After millions of locusts invaded southern Israel on Sunday, the Ministry of Agriculture
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The amount of dust blowing around the world may have serious environmental effects, geographers say.
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By MICHAEL CASEY  BANGKOK, Thailand - Desertification represents one of the "greatest environmental challenge of our times" and could set off mass migrations of people fleeing degraded homelands, a United Nations report warned Thursday.
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A report will describe a growing body of evidence that warming is likely to cause a profound transformation of the planet.
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With the desert locust crisis in West Africa expected to deteriorate over the next few weeks, the United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today that it only had in hand less than a tenth of the crucial funding needed to prevent the
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The U.N. climate panel is set to issue its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are causing a damaging global warming likely to bring more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas.
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Respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out within days in areas affected by southern Asiaâs tsunami disaster, the UN warned tonight.
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LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard  - In a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world's crop seeds in case of disaster.
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More than 500 million people can  be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no  longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if  rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, a  new U.N.-sponsored report said Monday.
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Sporadic cases of diarrhea already are being reported, and the number will &quot;obviously increase&quot; as relief organizations penetrate further into the affected areas, says the UN&#39;s Jamie McGoldrick.
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The rapid growth of slums in the  world's towns and cities is increasing urban poverty and  creating a breeding ground for terrorism, fanaticism, pollution  and disease, the United Nations said on Friday.
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The U.N. climate panel agreed its strongest warning yet on Thursday that human activities are causing global warming that may bring more droughts, heatwaves and rising seas, delegates said.