.A brand-new research study has located that the rise in ground disintegration in coastal regions as a result of desertification is worsening flooding impacts on Middle Eastern and also Northern African port areas. The analysts focused their observations on the destructive 2023 floods in the area of Derna, Libya, which took the lives of greater than 11,300 individuals as well as showed how the increase in ground destruction considerably added to the devastating cost of these unique desert floodings. The analysis was released nearly a year after the harmful flood took place on the September 10, 2023.