.A brand-new study has actually discovered that the increase in soil erosion in seaside places because of desertification is exacerbating flood impacts on Middle Eastern and N. African port urban areas. The scientists concentrated their monitorings on the damaging 2023 floodings in the area of Derna, Libya, which took the lives of more than 11,300 folks and also demonstrated how the boost in ground disintegration considerably supported the devastating cost of these unusual desert floods. The research study was actually posted just about a year after the harmful flooding occurred on the September 10, 2023.