.A brand new research study has actually located that the rise in soil destruction in coastal places due to desertification is actually aggravating flood impacts on Middle Eastern and also North African port areas. The analysts focused their observations on the terrible 2023 floodings in the city of Derna, Libya, which took the lives of more than 11,300 people as well as showed how the increase in ground erosion significantly brought about the disastrous toll of these unique desert floods. The research was actually released just about a year after the dangerous flooding occurred on the September 10, 2023.