For more than a century, people around the world have tried to stop “encroaching deserts” by planting “green walls” of trees, sometimes thousands of kilometers long. These efforts have failed. Tree ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall, a mosaic of reforestation efforts to stop desertification, has been plagued by delays and challenges. Some reforestation efforts, however, have tasted success, ...

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 ...

The Great Green Wall is a project to restore degraded land in nearly two dozen African countries. Deforestation, agricultural expansion, and drought have caused desertification across the continent.

Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its 2,800-mile-long northern border, and it wants to plant 34 ...

Koyli Alpha, Senegal — "Its power is its ability to attract funding in Europe and the United States. The problem is that's all it does." A donkey cart rattles down a sandy track that winds between ...

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 ...