Sand and dust storms now affect 330 million people globally, driven by climate change and land degradation, warns the UN. #ClimateCrisis #Desertification #GlobalHealth https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/12/sand-dust-storms-affect-about-330-million-people-due-to-climate-change-un
Morocco’s oases struggle to survive amid growing desertification http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLwZTH #Morocco #Desertification #Oasis #Skoura #Sustainability
https://www.unccd.int/resources/publications/drought-hotspots-around-world-2023-2025
Global climate patterns in 2023 and 2024 set the stage for severe drought impacts worldwide that are continuing into 2025. This report identifies the regions of the world that were most severely affected by droughts in 2023–2024, with some continuing into 2025. #drought #climate #resilience #desertification
IA : les data centers transforment les territoires en déserts
Les data centers ont consommé environ 560 milliards de litres d’eau à l’échelle mondiale en 2023. Un chiffre qui selon eux pourrait plus que doubler d’ici à 2030, pour atteindre près de 1 200 milliards de litres par an.
Extrait
Derrière les promesses de l’intelligence artificielle et du progrès technologique se cache une réalité matérielle brutale : celle de milliers de data centers qui engloutissent des quantités astronomiques d’eau pour assurer leur fonctionnement (...).
Ironie cruelle : ces infrastructures gourmandes en eau s’implantent de plus en plus dans des zones sujettes aux pénuries et aux sécheresses. Microsoft et Google disposent respectivement de 42% et de 15% de leur data centers dans des territoires soumis à un fort stress hydrique.
La région de l’Aragon, au nord de l’Espagne, est l’une de celles qui en paient le plus les conséquences. Malgré la sécheresse qui frappe régulièrement la région et fragilise ses activités – reposant en grande partie sur l’agriculture –, Amazon y prévoit la construction de trois nouveaux data centers, en plus de celui déjà en activité.
La releve et la peste : https://lareleveetlapeste.fr/ia-les-data-centers-transforment-les-territoires-en-deserts/
Source Material : https://www.source-material.org/amazon-microsoft-google-trump-data-centres-water-use/
@davidho Air conditioning costs a lot of electricity. You need more renewables, often the grids are not made for such an over-use, especially since the big #dataCentres for AI trigger more #desertification in Spain. Nowadays we cool #AISlop, not people.
Africa: World Marks Desertification and Drought Day With Renewed Call to Restore Land: [Nile Post] Today, the world pauses to mark the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, an annual reminder of the urgent need to protect and restore land degraded by human activity and climate change. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLQSyy #Desertification #DroughtDay #ClimateAction #SustainableLand #RestoreOurEarth
It is #WorldDayToCombatDesertificationAndDrought!
Globally, 
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% of #soils are degraded (UNCCD, #FAO, #IPCC and others).
The trend is still rising
and not in line with the #UN goal to “halt and reverse #LandDegradation” and, by 2030, to “achieve a land degradation-neutral world” (#SDG15).
#GlobalGoals #SDGs #2030Agenda #DesertificationAndDroughtDay #desertification #drought #degradation #soil
https://data.unccd.int/land-degradation?grouping=SDG
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/4/2022/11/SRCCL_Chapter_4.pdf
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2465799
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0138013
La #Desertification se puede producir por la degradación física, química y biológica del suelo. Más del 60% de la degradación del suelo afecta a las tierras agrícolas, lo que repercute directamente en la seguridad alimentaria. @FAOenEspanol
#QuizOfTheDay: Which of the following statements is NOT a human cause of #Desertification?
A. Cyclical drought bringing lower and less reliable rainfall
B. Population growth
C. Overgrazing by cattle
D. Deforestation for fuel and constructing shelter
https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/quiz?qId=666f042465497a45ac9d4753
Journée mondiale de lutte contre la #désertification et la #sécheresse | Nous sommes partis à l'#ExpoDéserts au @Le_Museum, pour poser nos questions à un de leur expert et savoir si la désertification pourrait toucher un jour le sud de l'Europe, réponse en vidéo !
#OnThisDay Mumtaz Mahal died during child birth (1631). #TajMahal in Agra, often cited as one of the Wonders of the World, was commissioned by her husband Shah Jahan to act as her final resting place.
Happy Birthday Venus Williams (1980) - A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles #Tennis.
Today is World Day to Combat #Desertification and #Drought.
“Desertification is a serious problem in parts of Italy, Spain, and Portugal…
The LIFE DESERT-ADAPT project tackled this challenge head-on.
It promoted adaptive methods like agroforestry, permaculture, and regenerative agriculture…
It also brought together local stakeholders and encouraged policy changes to spread these solutions across the Mediterranean.”
Sources - Cachemire de Mongolie : Enquête sur la face cachée de nos vêtements - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/118582-002-A/sources/
Crise climatique au #Sahel : comment les #femmes reprennent-elles les rênes de leur destin ?
Avec Merem Tahar, militante écologiste, responsable des relations publiques de l’Association des femmes de la #diaspora tchadienne, impliquée dans la lutte contre la #désertification.
Organisé par #APNA, #MauvaisGenre et #OMAF
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Trumpadministration #Desertification #Climatecrisis #Australianews #Environment #DonaldTrump #AsiaPacific #E-commerce #Technology #USpolitics #Microsoft #Computing #Worldnews #DeepSeek #Americas #Drought #ChatGPT #Arizona #Amazon #Google #OpenAI #Oracle #Africa #Europe #USnews #Water #Texas #Spain
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Trumpadministration #Desertification #Climatecrisis #Australianews #Environment #DonaldTrump #AsiaPacific #E-commerce #Technology #USpolitics #Microsoft #Computing #Worldnews #DeepSeek #Americas #Drought #ChatGPT #Arizona #Amazon #Google #OpenAI #Oracle #Africa #Europe #USnews #Water #Texas #Spain
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Trumpadministration #Desertification #Climatecrisis #Australianews #Environment #DonaldTrump #AsiaPacific #E-commerce #Technology #USpolitics #Microsoft #Computing #Worldnews #DeepSeek #Americas #Drought #ChatGPT #Arizona #Amazon #Google #OpenAI #Oracle #Africa #Europe #USnews #Water #Texas #Spain
There's a tech plan that's quite dire,
To build datacentres that require
Water from arid lands,
It's hard to understand,
Why they'd drain the world's driest mire.
#GuardianLimerick #Water #Amazon #Microsoft #Google #Desertification #Drought #Environment #ChatGPT #OpenAI #DeepSeek #Oracle #Computing #Technology #Texas #Africa #Spain #Europe #Arizona #Americas
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Trumpadministration #Desertification #Climatecrisis #Australianews #Environment #DonaldTrump #AsiaPacific #E-commerce #Technology #USpolitics #Microsoft #Computing #Worldnews #DeepSeek #Americas #Drought #ChatGPT #Arizona #Amazon #Google #OpenAI #Oracle #Africa #Europe #USnews #Water #Texas #Spain
