ModernFolktales.com » climate change http://modernfolktales.com Interpreting the Modern World and Synthesizing Folktales Out of Chaos Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:26:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Creeping Desert (IPS) http://modernfolktales.com/feeds/the-creeping-desert-ips/ http://modernfolktales.com/feeds/the-creeping-desert-ips/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:01:12 +0000 cog http://modernfolktales.com/?page_id=1359 IPS Inter Press Service The Creeping Desert Feed Summary

Desertification could force some 60 million to migrate from sub-Saharan Africa to Northern Africa and Europe by 2020. More than 250 million people worldwide directly suffer the effects of desertification, and another 1.2 billion in 110 countries are threatened by this degradation of otherwise

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