.A brand-new study has found that the increase in soil erosion in seaside regions because of desertification is worsening flooding impacts on Middle Eastern and also Northern African port areas. The researchers focused their reviews on the damaging 2023 floods in the city of Derna, Libya, which took the daily lives of greater than 11,300 people and also demonstrated how the increase in dirt destruction substantially resulted in the devastating toll of these unique desert floodings. The research study was actually released nearly a year after the harmful flooding happened on the September 10, 2023.