The Sahara Desert has grown by nearly 10 ... This makes finding quick solutions to stop desertification very ... Since 1920, the Sahara has grown by about 10%, moving south into the Sahel.

Life in the Sahel, a semi-arid region of Africa stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, is at threat from persistent degradation of land as the increasing population inflicts ever ...

According to the United Nations, Africa will lose two-thirds of arable land to desertification by 2030. The Sahel—the transitional zone between the arid Sahara desert to the north and the belt ...

In West Africa's Sahel region, which has had poor rain over the past few decades, scientists and human rights activists are hard at work trying to combat some of the many negative effects of ...

Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ shifts focus to hold off desert. Only 4% of the Great Green Wall’s original goal has been met, and an estimated $43 billion would be needed to achieve the rest.

But Evans and Burrell found that significant greening was much more extensive than previously acknowledged — and more than three times greater than desertification. It encompassed 41 percent of the ...

Like most people living along the Sahel – the drylands between Africa’s tropical savannahs and the Sahara Desert – Mustafa Ba is all too familiar with the effects of desertification.

Desertification—the process of fertile land becoming desert—is a significant problem throughout Africa. Currently, 45 percent of Africa's land mass is experiencing desertification, with an ...

There is a wall appearing across the African continent, dividing north and south. But this wall isn’t to keep migrants out, or to keep smuggled goods in check. It is holding back sand.