desertification Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:34:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Stopping the desert https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stopping-the-desert-20190131/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stopping-the-desert-20190131/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:34:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67801 According to the UN, 24% of land globally is degrading and threatened with desrtification. Trends are only getting worse, considering climate change and mismanagement. The ancient farming technique of zaï is applied to improve degraded bare soils exposed to drought. The farmers dig pits approximately 20 cm across and 15 cm deep in the ground, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stopping-the-desert-20190131/feed/ 1 67801 Climate Predictions for the Year 3015 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-predictions-3015/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-predictions-3015/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2015 18:14:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54161 Scientists continuously develop more detailed and more powerful climate models, which make much more accurate and useful predictions for the state of our environment in the near future. But how much can we really extrapolate the results for the future- 10, 100, 1000 years? Now that pretty much everyone, with a few confused exceptions, has agreed […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-predictions-3015/feed/ 0 54161 Air Pollution in Europe Worsened by Natural Causes https://www.greenoptimistic.com/natural-air-pollution-europe-20120716/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/natural-air-pollution-europe-20120716/#respond Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:50:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=25508 Mediterranean countries find it harder to comply with the EU clean air directive due to the prevalence of natural pollution. Chief among these natural pollutants are desert sand, sea salt, volcanic ash and particulate matter from forest fires. The European Environmental Agency (EEA) reports that Spain has the highest levels of natural pollutants. The country […]

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