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BEFORE Section E (Geography) of the British Association meeting at Norwich, Prof. E. P. Stebbing returned to the subject of “The Encroaching Sahara”, on which he read a very important paper to the Royal Geographical Society in March of this year (see Geog. J., 85, 506, June 1935). Leaving on one side the difficult and still disputed question of secular desiccation, it is clear that the activities of man have resulted in assisting the spread of desert and semi-desert conditions—“the eastern Sahara Desert is advancing south and threatening the future prosperity of considerable stretches of West Africa”.
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S., L. Increasing Aridity in West Africa. Nature 136, 1036 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1361036a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1361036a0