For the past two millennia, “Saharina” has been a byword for desertification. Now, thanks to an innovative project, The “Sahara Forest Project,” the world’s biggest largest desertification region may ...

We’ve written about the Sahara Forest Project before, so we’re excited to report that the organization behind this ambitious endeavor has signed an agreement to build its first pilot plant in Doha, ...

The prophet Isaiah once promised that the Lord would make deserts bloom like Eden, but a bunch of Norwegians may actually get the job done first. The ambitious Sahara Forest Project is developing ...

Vegetables are sprouting in the desert at the Sahara Forest Project’s recently inaugurated launch station in Aqaba, Jordan. The project draws on the sun, saltwater, and carbon dioxide to grow food and ...

The violet plant, Limonium axillare, takes salt up from the soil and excretes it through its leaves, a process that could be used to desalinate soil.

In Qatar, the summers are long and hot. From April through October, the average high hovers between 90 and 104 degrees Fahrenheit, and there's hardly ever a drop of rain. To meet the needs of a ...

Jordan’s Sahara Forest project (SFP), which has been running since December 2012 with the aim of transforming desert spaces into vegetated areas, was inaugurated on September 7 by the Prince of Norway ...

One of the finalists for the prize in this year’s Buckminster Fuller Challenge is a project that would use known technologies to convert the Sahara desert into a sustainable source of fresh fruit and ...

It may be hard to imagine an arid desert in full bloom, but one UK firm has dreamed up a way of turning the driest places on Earth into fertile land. The ‘Sahara Forest Project’ uses specially-built ...