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But local residents, faced with harsh economic realities, have also made short-term decisions to get by - like clearing trees for livestock and extracting clay for the region’s tile industry - that have carried long-term consequences. Desertification is a natural disaster playing out in slow motion in areas that are home to half a billion people, from northern China and North Africa to remote Russia and the American Southwest. Much of Brazil’s vast northeast is, in effect, turning into a desert - a process called desertification that is worsening across the planet.Climate change is one culprit.

“I plan to work this land,” she said.Scientists agree with her grandfather. “I tell my grandchildren that things are going to get very difficult.”His granddaughter, Hellena, 16, listened in - and pushed back. The phenomenon, called desertification, is happening across the planet. CARNAÚBA DOS DANTAS, Brazil - The land has sustained the Dantas family for more than 150 years, bearing fields of cotton, beanstalks up to a grown man’s hip and, when it rained enough, a river that led to a waterfall.But on a recent day, with temperatures approaching 100 degrees, the river had run dry, the crops would not grow and the family’s 30 remaining cattle were quickly consuming the last pool of water.“Fifty years from now, there won’t be a soul living here,” said Inácio Batista Dantas, 80, balanced in a frayed hammock. Cayman Eco - Beyond Cayman A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land The New York Times3 December 2021 Climate change is intensifying droughts in Brazil’s northeast, leaving the land barren.