The largest human-created forest in Israel, 12-square-mile Yatir was created in the 1960s on semi-arid land with four million trees, 90 percent of them Aleppo pine. Yatir Forest, Israel — A ...

For the past 10 years, the Weizmann Institute has been operating a research station in the semi-arid Yatir Forest, a pine forest at the edge of the Negev Desert. This station is part of a world ...

Different from tree planting, FMNR takes advantage of the “underground forest”: existing roots ... For another, Rinaudo says, it makes most sense in semi-arid areas. A wide variety of species, ...

The foreseeable effects of climate change on the Caatinga, the semi-arid shrubland and thorn forest biome in Brazil's Northeast region, will be catastrophic for most terrestrial mammal species ...

See All Key Ideas ROBORÉ, Bolivia — Tucabaca Valley Municipal Wildlife Reserve comprises around 2,644 square kilometers (1,021 square miles) of semi-arid forest and scrubland in the heart of ...

Drylands refer to arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, and, in general, exclude deserts when referred to in the context of sustainable development. See Figure 1 for on the spread of drylands ...

The review article encompasses 18 studies conducted in the semi-arid region, especially the Caatinga, a local biome consisting mainly of deciduous thorn forest. The area susceptible to ...

The Federal Government has announced plans to scale up the World Bank-supported Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) Project as a strategic intervention to enhance food security ...

The loan is for a 21-kilometre gully erosion control project under the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes ...

This is especially true for non-perennial streams in semi-arid rangelands. Non-perennial streams tend to lack complete records for streamflow presence and absence. Quantifying how stream channels ...