Tefnut's Environmental News is where you can find todays current and past articles about droughts, climate change, desertification, geoengineering, reverse desertification projects and other articles about our changing environment.

Below is a list of environmental news and articles about droughts, desertification and how to stop the growth of deserts that you may find of interest.

Thanks,

Bill McNulty

Civilian Conservation Corps
Soil Erosion a National Menace (1928) by Hugh Bennett and W.R. Chapline
Liquid Nanoclay – Turn barren desert sand into fertile soil quickly.
Regreening Africaby using Zai Farming
Tree Restoration Project
Wheat DNA Goldmine Discovered 7/24
Climate Engineering off US Coast Causing Problems 6/24
Pesticides in UK and Falling Insect Populations 6/24
Zimbabwe Drought Declared 4/24
New Mosquito Bed Availible 4/24
Fossil Fuels and Heat Waves 4/24
Bee Colony Collapse Getting Better 3/24
Indoor Produce Farming 3/24
Drought in Amazon 11/23
Saving the Right Kind of Bumblebees 5/23
Rare Zebras Die in Kenya 10/22
Climate Report Predicts Extreme Destruction 9/22
Megadrought in the US Southwest 9/22
Renewables Could Save Trillions 9/22
Deforesters Plundering the Amazon 8/22
EPA to Approve Pesticide That's Toxic to Bees 3/22
Dams Increase River Temperatures 2/22
Rainforests can Recover from Deforestation Quickly 12/21
Africa's Green Wall Makes Economic Sense 11/21
Wildfires and Climate Change 11/21
Lakes Dissappear in Turkey 10/21
Kenya Faces Looming Drought 9/21
Insects are Vanishing from the Planet 9/21
The Coming Insect Apocalypse 7/21
France Sized Forest Regrown in 20 Years 5/21
Pesticides Impact on Bees Has Doubled 4/21
Why are Deserts So Cold at Night 2/21
One Quarter of Bees Missing Since 1990 1/21
Istanbul Running Out of Water 1/21
Tree Regrowth After a Drought 11/20
Predicting Locust Breeding Grounds 11/20
Will the Sahara Ever Be Green Again 9/20
Pesticides Killing US Bird Populations 8/20
New Method of Pulling Carbon from the Atmosphere 7/20
Locusts Attack Across Africa, Asia and the Middle East 6/20
Fatal Bouts of Heat and Humidity on the Rise 5/20
Drought Study Helps Predict Famines 4/20
Insect Apocalypse Occuring Over Last Twenty-Five Years 4/20
Worldwide Famine Coming During Coronavirus Pandemic 4/20
Second Wave of Locusts Heads to East Africa 4/20
China's Dams Create Drought 4/20
Spekboom Takes on Climate Change 3/20
Ducks Won't Take On Locusts in Pakistan 2/20
Fog Catching in Peru 2/20
Locusts Swarm Kenya 2/20
Biochar and Cattle 2/20
Bumblebee Decline Suggests Mass Extinction 2/20
Can We Reverse Insect Apocalypse? 1/20
Climate Change and Monarch Butterflies 1/20
Huge Brazilian Bee Dieoff 8/19
Russian Beekeepers Report Large Losses 7/19
The Sahara Was Home to Dinosaur Sea Critters 7/19
Can Planting Billions of Trees Save the Planet? 6/19
Permafrost Thawing 70 Years Earlier Than Predicted 6/19
Sacred Forests of Ethiopia 5/19
Monarch Butterfly Population Drops 1/19
Locusts Change Colors According to Environment 1/19
Flooding Deserts to Stop Global Warming 11/18
Solar Farms to Bring Rain to Sahara? 9/18
GAO Trees and the Regreening of Niger 9/18
Long–Term Effects of Amazon Drought 8/18
Connectivity Between Droughts and Rainfall 8/18
MIT Fog Harp 6/18
NASA to Study Plants Water Usage from Space 6/18
Turning Desert Sand Into Farmland in Hours 5/18
The Uniqueness of Water 5/18
Kenyan Seed Balls 5/18
Eu Bans Bee Killing Pesticides 5/18
Flash Floods Hit East Africa 5/18
Cape Town Avoids Day Zero 5/18
Pet Trade Killing Frogs Globally 5/18
Virginia Tech's Fog Harp 4/18
Climate Change and European Droughts 4/18
Somalian Drought Worsens 5/17
Unbearable Costs of African Droughts 4/17
Watering Kenyan Wildlife 3/17
Kenyan Farmers Fight Drought 3/17
South Africa Drought Conditions Grow 2/17
Sand Dams and Rainwater 9/16
Land Degradation Costs Today 6/16
Great Green Wall Receives Funding 5/16
US Bee Stocks in Trouble 5/16
African Dust Affects Caribbean Corals 5/16
Fairy Circles Found in Australia 3/16
South Africa Faces 100 Year Drought 3/16
Rain Deluges Hit Wet and Dry Regions 3/16
Huge Crisis Looms for Africa 3/16
Cover Crops and Farming Yields 2/16
Bee Colony Collapse Is a Manmade Problem 2/16
Satellites Track Cattle in Australia 1/16
Bumblebees and Pesticides 11/15
Worldwide Groundwater Survey Completed 11/15
World One Degree Hotter Since Industrial Age Started 11/15
UCSB Predicts Drought in Africa11/15
Amazon Drought and Carbon Release 10/15
How to Get Rid of Oyster Killing Shrimp? 8/15
Understanding Nighttime Thunderstorms 7/15
Neonicotinoids Companies Attend Meetings to Ban Their Products 7/15
UK Allows Bee Killing Pesticides Again 7/15
Sea Critters Help Form Clouds 7/15
World's Aquifers Running Dry 6/15
Ocean Spray and the Weather 5/15
Large Animals Disappear from Landscape 5/15
Seattle Chefs Stop Pesticide Spraying on Oyster Beds 5/15
Imidacloprid to be Sprayed on Oyster Beds 5/15
Spate of Dust Storms is a Mystery 4/15
Satellites Used to Stop Forest Destruction 4/15
California Growers Gamed System During Current Drought 3/15
Amazon Losing CO2 Absorption Powers 3/15
Greenhouse Collects Morning Dew 3/15
China's Cement Consumption Skyrockets 3/15
Good vs Bad Geoengineering 2/15
Data Projects to Save the Environment 11/14
Climate Change and Ancient Egyptian Wildlife 9/14
Amazon Cloud Cover Disappears 9/14
Bill Gates Program to Change African Farming Practices 9/14
Satellite to Monitor Soil Moisture 8/14
Bird Deaths Linked to Imidacloprid 7/14
NASA Maps Soil Moisture 7/14
Kenya to Provide Food and Water to Wildlife 7/14
Iran's Water Crisis Deepens 7/14
Federal Grazing Rights and Drought 6/14
Kenya Tries to Climate-Proof Landscape to Prevent Desertification 6/14
Solar Winds and Lightning 5/14
Baskets Collect Drinking Water 3/14
Tracking Tree Loss in Real Time by Satellites 2/14
Bee Loss Extends to Honeybees 2/14
Freshwater Reserves Found Under Oceans 12/13
Climate Smart Agricuslture Desired for Future 12/13
Zimbabwe Crops Suffer After Floods and Drought 12/13
Aid Agencies Paid Al-Shabab During Famine 12/13
Wildebeest Make Early Migration North 11/13
African Dust Fertilized Everglades During Giza Pyramid Construction 10/13
Truffula Trees and the Sahel 10/13
Tanzania and Genetically Modified Crops 10/13
Underground Aquifer Found in Kenya 9/13
Tropical Storms Nourish Marine Life 9/13
Severe Drought in Namibia Takes Toll 9/13
Climate Fixes Promote Hopes and Fears 8/13
New Theory on Formation of Fairy Circles 8/13
Water Data to be Collected in East Africa 8/13
Climate Change and The Masai 8/13
Drought Suffocates Namibia 8/13
US Beekeepers Lose Over 30% of Stock 5/13
EU to Ban Neonicotinoids Pesticides 4/13
Cell Phones and Drought Alerts 4/13
Dark Lightning Zaps Airline Passengers 4/13
UK MPs Urge Bee Killing Pesticide Ban 4/13
Canada Abandons Anti-Drought Treaty 3/13
Sahara Dust Affects Sierra Nevadas Rainfall 2/13
California Irrigation Brings Rain to US Southwest 1/13
Terrace Farming in Ancient Petra 1/13
Seaweed Killed by Heatwave 1/13
Wacky Climate Ideas Gain Hold 1/13
Lunar Dust and Raindrops 12/12
Terraforming Earth 12/12
Droughts and Faulty Index 11/12
China's Coal Fired Power Plants and Global Warming 11/12
Geoengineering and Mad Scientists 11/12
Bee Colonies and Pesticides 10/12
Bee Colony Collapse and Inbreeding 9/12
Afternoon Rain Falls Mainly on Dry Plains 9/12
Arctic Ice In Bad Shape 9/12
Drought Computer Models May be Wrong 9/12
Arctic Ice is Disappearing 9/12
Niger Nomad Sells His Last Camel 8/12
Droughts and the Pyramid Builders 8/12
Megadrought Coming to the USA? 8/12
Drought and King Corn 8/12
Megafires and Tree-rings 7/12
Huge Namibian Aquifer Discovered 7/12
Ocean Fertilization to Cool Planet 7/12
Rodents are Rainforest Saviours 7/12
Ancient Mayan Dam Identified 7/12
Drought Covers over Half of United States 7/12
Cattle Milked in Ancient Sahara Region 6/12
Bee Killing Mite Identified 6/12
Smart Water Hand Pumps in Africa 6/12
Megafires are Recent According to Tree-Rings 5/12
Seagrass as a Carbon Sink 5/12
Clouds and Climate Change 4/12
Huge African Underground Water Resources Found 4/12
Garden Pesticides and Bee Colony Collapse 4/12
Chili Pepper Concoction Stops Marauding Elephants 4/12
Ocean Acidity Killing Oysters 4/12
Biochar Production and Temperature 3/12
Technical Fixes Urged for Arctic Methane 3/12
Rainforests as Rainmakers 2/12
Ships Create Contrails Over Pacific 2/12
Clouds Height Above Ground are Dropping 2/12
China's Air Pollution and Sierra Nevada Snowstorms 2/12
Amazon May Become Source of Greenhouse Gases 2/12
Holistic Management of Cattle 1/12
Soil's Hidden Carbon Amounts 1/12
Groundwater Dropping Globally 1/12
Locusts Like Over Grazed Croplands 1/12
The Cause of Bee Colony Collapse? 1/12
China's Bumper Grain Crop and Cloud Seeding 12/11
Bacteria and Fungii Change Soil Composition 12/11
Pollution Affects Cloud Formation 11/11
Dam Sediment Destroys Chesapeake Bay Oyster Crop 11/11
China Building Over 300 Dams Worldwide 11/11
China's "Warrior of the Sands" Stops Desert Growth 10/11
Texas Drought Has Global Impact 10/11
Innovative Desert Farmer to Lose Land to Burkina Faso Government 10/11
Holistic Management of Grasslands 10/11
Desert Stopping Ideas from Sahel 10/11
The Fight Against Desertification 10/11
New World Pandemics Led to C02 Decrease 10/11
Pollen Coating Affects Cloud Seeding 10/11
Fine Line Between Forests and Savannahs 10/11
Trees Boost African Crop Yields 10/11
Weather Modifications During Droughts 10/11
Texas Drought to Last 10 Years? 10/11
Major Loss of Ozone Over Arctic 10/11
China's New Forests are Really Plantations 9/11
Some Radical Geoengineering Ideas 9/11
Permafrost and Carbon Release 9/11
Old Growth Forests and Biodiversity 9/11
CIA Says Global Warming Info is Classified 9/11
UN Secretary on Desertification 9/11
Nigeria Loses Over Half of its Forests 9/11
Fertilizer Tree Aids Crops 9/11
Water Collection in Semi-Arid Regions of Brazil 9/11
Improving Food Security by Planting Forests 9/11
Real Cause of East African Famine 9/11
Back to Back La Nina? 9/11
Geoengineering Trials to Start 9/11
Frankincense and Myrrh Harvests and Sustainability 9/11
Moving Flood Waters to Drought Areas 9/11
Tibetan Plateau Faces Deforestation 9/11
Why Did Methane Amounts Level Off 8/11
Mystery Ingredient in Cloud Formation 8/11
Tropical Forests and Carbon Release 8/11
Upside of Global Warming 8/11
IBM Predicts River Floods 8/11
SW China Drought Affects Millions 8/11
Mosquitoes Disappearing in Africa 8/11
Global Sea Levels Drop 1/4 inch 8/11
Time for Geoengineering Panic Button? 8/11
Water Industry Needs to Unite 8/11
Cooking Gas and Climate Change 8/11
Senegal Plants "Green Wall" 8/11
Korea to Lead in Desertification Programs 8/11
China Blamed for Horn of Africa Drought 8/11
Crescent Moon Lake and Desertification 8/11
The Toxic Mathenge Shrub 8/11
Ghana Female Farmers Fight Desertification 8/11
Desertification in Mongolia 8/11
Harvesting Icebergs for Fresh Water 8/11
Hydro Produces Excess Carbon in Tropics 8/11
Vegas Raised Shrimp 7/11
Carving Your Name in the Desert 7/11
Shrimp Raised Near Las Vegas 7/11
Huge Arctic Fire 7/11
Major Snowfall in Chile Desert 7/11
Horn of Africa Drought is Severe 7/11
Asian Pollution Slows Global Warming 7/11
Somali Drought Victims Hit by Rainstorms 7/11
Cities as Carbon Sinks 7/11
UN Tree Project to Fight Desertification 6/11
China Flood Affects Millions 6/11
Humans Emit More CO2 Than Volcanoes 6/11
Forest Planting May Not Help Reduce CO2 6/11
Horn of Africa Drought Worse in 60 Years 6/11
Rainforests "Better Managed" 6/11
Rainforests More Valuable Intact 6/11
Can Technology Make the Desert Bloom Again 4/11
Ozone Hole Drifts South 4/11
Artificial Clouds Can Bring Warmer Temps 4/11
Mangroves Store Carbon 4/11
Sugarcane Cools Down Brazil 4/11
Drought and Mayan Collapse 3/11
Climate Smart Agriculture 3/11
Arctic Plankton Bloom Comes Early 3/11
Can Hurricanes Trigger Earthquakes 3/11
Forest Loss Slows as Asia Plants 2/11
Climate and Human Societies 1/11
China's Desertification Fight 1/11
Logging Helped Create New England Swamps 1/11
Dust Storms and Climate Models 12/10
Aboriginal Burn Control a Myth 12/10
Shuttle Reveals Ancient Lake Bed 11/10
Global Warming May Reverse Atlantic Currents 11/10
Cloud Seeding in New South Wales 11/10
Olivine Dust Could Fight Climate Change 11/10
Cow Burps and Methane 10/10
Biochar, Terra Preta and Climate Change 9/10
Urban Bees Have an Extensive Diet 8/10
Why Eating Veggies Won't Save the World 7/10
Dust Takes a Toll on Environment 7/10
Power Generation From Salt Batteries 7/10
Great Green Wall of Africa Proposed 6/10
Australian Dust Impacts Antarctica 5/10
Lasers Used to Seed Clouds 5/10
Chinese Genetic Engineering Causes Pest Problems 5/10
Bill Gates as Rainmaker 5/10
Ancient Egyptian Bee Keepers 5/10
Mega Flood Caused European Ice Age 4/10
Methane Found Bubbling Under Arctic 3/10
Old Rivers Discovered Under Australian Deserts 3/10
Forest Loss Slows as Planting Grows 3/10
UK Consumption Adds to Water Crisis 3/10
Excessive Fertilizer Use in China 2/10
Logging Increases Forest Flammability 2/10
Food Crisis Looms 2/10
Weeds as World Food Crop? 2/10
Bee Colony Collapse Uncertainty 1/10
Your Lawn and Nitrous Oxide 1/10
Coal and Lung Cancer 1/10
Nazca Killed by Deforestation 11/09
China Blizzard and Cloud Seeding 11/09
Dust Storm Triggers Ocean Bloom 10/09
Food Crisis in Kenya 10/09
One Billion Go Hungry 10/09
Food Production Must Rise 70 Per Cent 10/09
Global Hunger Worsens 10/09
Trees as Famine Food 10/09
Cow Manure and Methane Gas 8/09
Sun Causes La Nina Effect on Earth 8/09
Simple Truth About Raindrops 7/09
Desert Wall to Stop Dune Expansion 7/09
Lightning May Have Started Life on Earth 7/09
Experts Warn of Expanding Tropics 7/09
Crops and Toxins in Warmer World 6/09
Sand Dune Wall 6/09
Grazing Changes Needed 6/09
Bacteria Found in Clouds 5/09
Overfishing Began Over 1000 Years Ago 5/09
Chlorine and Triassic Extinction 4/09
Stressed Corals Change Sex 3/09
Controlled Burns and Carbon Emissions 3/09
Trees Excess Value Besides Carbon Sinks 3/09
Roofs Can Raise Lead Levels in Cistern Water 3/09
Urban Trees Pay Off 2/09
Locusts Brain Chemicals Lead to Swarm 2/09
Sun's Impact on Rainfall is Predictable 12/08
Coal is the King of Global Warming 12/08
Hurricanes May Bury CO2 10/08
Agaric Society and Eco-Ruin 12/07
Peru's Water Troubles 3/07
How to Cool the Earth (Maybe) 6/06
Desertification Costs 42 Billion Per Annum 6/04
Mayan Collapse Caused by Drought 3/03
Tracking Air Pollution 5/01