.A brand-new research has actually discovered that the boost in ground erosion in seaside areas because of desertification is actually aggravating flooding impacts on Center Eastern and also Northern African port metropolitan areas. The researchers concentrated their observations on the destructive 2023 floodings in the city of Derna, Libya, which took the lives of more than 11,300 folks as well as showed how the increase in soil disintegration substantially resulted in the disastrous cost of these unusual desert floods. The study was released practically a year after the deadly flood happened on the September 10, 2023.