Africa's Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometer-wide band of trees across the north of Africa. The African Union launched the project in 2007 with plans for the ...

Everyone knows the Great Wall of China, but likely far fewer have heard of China's "Great Green Wall," which recently hit a major milestone after more than four decades of tree-planting. In November, ...

As our climate changes, we fear that warmer temperatures and drier conditions could make life hard for us. In most locations, it’s a future concern that feels uncomfortably near, but for some ...

A recent study has examined the progress to realize Africa’s Great Green Wall initiative in Senegal, which is often hailed as the model for this continent-wide project. The study finds Senegal has ...

Jeremy Allouche receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making ...

After years of delays due to insufficient funding and prevailing conflicts, the Great Green Wall in the Sahel, aimed at preventing desertification, gained momentum with an accelerator program ...

VIJAYAWADA: Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Forests and Environment Pawan Kalyan on Tuesday directed officials to ...

In ancient times the shifting sands of the Taklamakan, a desert in China’s north-western Xinjiang region, swallowed up entire cities. Today they still cause trouble. On the edges of the desert, sand ...

CHANDIGARH: A detailed action plan for the Haryana Aravali Green Wall Project, aimed at addressing major environmental ...

Annah Lake Zhu receives funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Amadou Ndiaye works at Amadou Mahtar Mbow university. So far, more than US$20 billion has been pledged, including large sums of ...