.A brand new research study has actually discovered that the increase in dirt erosion in coastal areas due to desertification is actually aggravating flooding influence on Middle Eastern and also Northern African port metropolitan areas. The analysts focused their observations on the destructive 2023 floods in the urban area of Derna, Libya, which took the lives of much more than 11,300 people as well as demonstrated how the boost in dirt disintegration dramatically brought about the disastrous cost of these unique desert floodings. The research was actually published nearly a year after the lethal flood took place on the September 10, 2023.