Guardian:
Global warming threatens to create dust belt around the globe
Paul Brown, environment correspondent in Bonn Wednesday December 20, 2000
The Sahara has crossed the Mediterranean, forcing thousands to migrate as a
lethal combination of soil degradation and climate change turns parts of
southern Europe into desert.
A major UN conference was told yesterday that up to a third of Europe's
soil could eventually be affected.
A fifth of Spanish land is so degraded that it is turning into desert,
according to figures released for the first time yesterday, and in Italy
tracts of land in the south are now abandoned and technically desert.
Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece are the four EU countries already so
badly affected that they have joined the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification (CCD) which is meeting in Bonn this week.
etc.
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