Causes and effects of desertification: Desertification is defined as a process of land degradation in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid areas due to various factors including climatic variations and human activities. Or, to put it in another way, desertification results in persistent degradation of dryland and fragile ecosystems due to man
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 â 31 May 1910) was a British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register.
Blackwell family members include Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in America to receive a medical degree; her sister Emily, also a physician; their brother Henry, a noted abolitionist and womenâs suffrage activist; his wife, Lucy Stone, the famous womenâs suffrage leader; their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, active in both suffrage and temperance; and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (sister-in-law to Elizabeth, Emily, and Henry), a reformer and the first woman in the United States to ...