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According to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, nearly 40 per cent of the planet's land is degraded, with more being lost every second.

The impact of climate change is putting food supplies and livelihoods in peril, said UNCCD.

Some 1,220 homes and 4,270 residents were under mandatory evacuation orders.

The charges range from desertion for running into N. Korea to assault against fellow soldiers and solicitation of child pornography.

The final descent and landing capped a six-year joint mission between the U.S. space agency and the University of Arizona.

Exhausted, pregnant and weeping, Sudanese nurse Tafaul Omar sat under the scorching desert sun along with 14 other migrants.

Complex production issues meant that the show could not be constructed in the desert, organiser Live Nation said.

Human-caused climate change means the once-bountiful snowpack that feeds the river has dwindled.

Francois Hugo sets off every Thursday to deliver newspapers in the South African desert.

Anyone seeking a hallucinogenic high from the wart-covered amphibians is more likely to end up seriously ill.

Nearly a week after Hurricane Ian hammered southwest Florida, once tony Fort Myers Beach is a nearly deserted disaster zone.

The deserts and mountains of Saudi Arabia will soon be a playground for winter sports, OCA said.

A check around Zalina's house found that the residential area was deserted with the construction of a fence still uncompleted.

The one-time top predator likely measured some 12 meters (39 feet) long, or about the height of a four-story building.

Coachella organisers are planning to stage the premier desert festival in April.

Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.

Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.

The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".

Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.

It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.

This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.

'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.