Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Southeast Australia has been getting hotter and drier. Droughts ...

A semi-arid landscape surrounds the Sahel village of Ndiawagne Fall on one end of the Great Green Wall project, in Kebemer, Senegal, Nov. 5, 2021 (AP photo by Leo Correa). Click to share on Twitter ...

Countries in the Sahel region of Africa have made little progress on the "Great Green Wall," a 5,000-mile-long band of trees planned for the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Even where countries ...

Desertification made worse by climate change is outpacing a U.N.-backed project to protect millions of people in Africa’s Sahel region. Few climate adaption projects can match the sheer ambition — or ...

Fatima Tirap, adviser to the president of Chad, came to Israel for the first time last March as part of an 11-country African delegation learning about agricultural technologies and especially ...

While most of the displaced remain within their home countries, cross-border movements are growing, as families flee ...

Chinguetti, a sacred site, faces climate change and heritage loss. Chinguetti, a historic and sacred site in Islam, holds immense cultural value with ancient manuscripts preserving knowledge in ...

Spurts of green spread across the African continent taken together accounted for over 400,000 square kilometers (154,000 square miles) of greening, an area the size of Zimbabwe. According to ...

Discover how Africa is combatting the encroachment of the Sahara Desert in this insightful video. - **0:00** Introduction - **0:46** The Sahel: Learn about this region's unique challenges and ...

The 10th Kubuqi International Desert Forum opened Tuesday in Ordos, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. China's outstanding achievements in combating desertification took center stage, ...

While the Sahara Desert is an important ecosystem in its own right, its human neighbors in the Sahel would like it to stop encroaching on their environment. [Andrew Millison] took a look at how the ...