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Spain worries over ‘lifeless land’ amid creeping desertification
ALMERIA: Ongoing droughts and an over-exploitation of land for both agriculture and industry have stoked fears in Spain over the creeping spread of “sterile soil” which could devastate Europe’s kitchen garden.“There used to be a holm oak forest here.. but now the land is barren,“ says Gabriel del Barrio, pointing to a hill where only stunted shrubs remain.Wearing dusty trainers and with a canvas hat on his head, this specialist in desertification has been worriedly monitoring the daily degradation of the landscape in Almeria, in the southern Andalusia region.“Spain is not going to be a desert with dunes like in the Sahara, that’s morphologically impossible,“ explains del Barrio, a researcher

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