.A new study has found that the rise in ground erosion in seaside places as a result of desertification is exacerbating flooding impacts on Middle Eastern as well as N. African port cities. The analysts focused their monitorings on the destructive 2023 floodings in the metropolitan area of Derna, Libya, which took the lives of much more than 11,300 individuals as well as showed how the increase in dirt destruction substantially helped in the catastrophic cost of these unique desert floods. The analysis was posted nearly a year after the deadly flood took place on the September 10, 2023.