Each USD invested into land restoration can have social returns of about 3–6 USD over a 30-year period. Investments into SLM, land restoration and rehabilitation in dryland areas have positive economic returns ( high confidence). Higher intensity of sand storms and sand dune movements are causing disruption and damage to transportation and solar and wind energy harvesting infrastructures ( high confidence).
Dust storms were associated with global cardiopulmonary mortality of about 402,000 people in 2005. Unsustainable land management, particularly when coupled with droughts, has contributed to higher dust-storm activity, reducing human well-being in drylands and beyond ( high confidence). In many dryland areas, spread of invasive plants has led to losses in ecosystem services ( high confidence), while over-extraction is leading to groundwater depletion ( high confidence).
Desertification has already reduced agricultural productivity and incomes (high confidence) and contributed to the loss of biodiversity in some dryland regions ( medium confidence). Other dryland regions have also experienced desertification. The highest numbers of people affected are in South and East Asia, the circum Sahara region including North Africa and the Middle East including the Arabian Peninsula ( low confidence). Desertification hotspots, as identified by a decline in vegetation productivity between the 1980s and 2000s, extended to about 9.2% of drylands (☐.5%), affecting about 500 (☑20) million people in 2015. The multiplicity and complexity of the processes of desertification make its quantification difficult. Drylands currently cover about 46.2% (☐.8%) of the global land area and are home to 3 billion people. The range and intensity of desertification have increased in some dryland areas over the past several decades ( high confidence). We won't tell anyone.Desertification is land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, collectively known as drylands, resulting from many factors, including human activities and climatic variations. make the little guy trot around and squeal a little. While it lasts, however, Home Sheep Home 2 is a bouncy good time for everyone, guaranteed to put a smile on the lips of the most hardened of gamers. If you've got an iOS of your own, or can wrestle someone who does into submission, you might also want to check out the mobile version for even more levels since the web version only has fifteen centering around London. While there's nothing particularly innovative happening here, there's also something to be said for a game that goes out of its way to excel at style and quality, and Home Sheep Home 2 definitely has both by the bushel. It's like some sort of adorable vortex you never want to leave. Just try not to squeal at the animation and the sound effects unique to each sheep. The environments are bigger and more interesting, with significantly more variation than "field" and "field with a few more clouds". Not only is Home Sheep Home 2 more difficult than the original, with a bigger emphasis on timing and skill, but it also feels significantly more. You also might want to keep an eye open along the way for sweet collectibles like. Try to keep your little flock together, and hit if you need to restart. Shirley, for instance, is big enough that she can push heavy objects and boost her friends higher, but also can't jump as high or walk on certain objects without weighing them down. Each sheep is a different size, however, and all have their advantages and disadvantages. From the streets to the rooftop, London is littered with hazards and obstacles than Shaun and his pals will have to work together to get past safely. The object of each level is to get all three sheep safely to the end of the stage (marked by a white arrow) together, but this is no sight-seeing tour through Trafalgar Square.
Use the keys to move the sheep one at a time, and hit, , or to swap between them. Will they ever find their way back home? Or will they roam the streets forever, subsisting on fish and chips and photobombing tourists in front of the palace? After trying to help their farmer, Shaun and company inadvertently find themselves on the road once again, eventually winding up in London after a hair-raising road trip. Aardman's woolly wonders are back again in the physics puzzle platformer Home Sheep Home 2, the follow-up to the original. unless you're a trio of sheep who can't seem to stay put.