.A brand-new study has actually found that the rise in ground disintegration in coastal areas due to desertification is actually intensifying flooding impacts on Center Eastern and also Northern African port metropolitan areas. The analysts centered their observations on the dreadful 2023 floods in the urban area of Derna, Libya, which took the lives of much more than 11,300 people and also showed how the boost in soil destruction considerably resulted in the catastrophic cost of these uncommon desert floods. The investigation was posted just about a year after the fatal flood occurred on the September 10, 2023.