.A new study has actually discovered that the increase in soil disintegration in coastal places due to desertification is actually aggravating flood impacts on Middle Eastern and North African slot urban areas. The researchers concentrated their observations on the devastating 2023 floods in the city of Derna, Libya, which took the lives of more than 11,300 people as well as demonstrated how the boost in ground erosion dramatically added to the devastating toll of these unique desert floods. The study was actually released just about a year after the deadly flood occurred on the September 10, 2023.