Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Got Drier in Recent Decades, U.N. Says | Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions everywhere | talks on halting desertification in Saudi Arabia

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Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Got Drier in Recent Decades, U.N. Says | Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions everywhere | talks on halting desertification in Saudi Arabia

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Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Got Drier in Recent Decades, U.N. Says

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Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions on every continent, scientists said in a new report, as talks on halting desertification were underway in Saudi Arabia.

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