Explore the urgent issue of desertification in Africa's Sahel region and discover how the ambitious 'Great Green Wall' ...

In a Rescript, Leo XIV approves the new Statute of the John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel, established in 1984 to ...

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has welcomed $150 million investment in its Desert to Power G5 Financing Facility from the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The GCF approved the amount at its 30 ...

The Sahara Desert has expanded by approximately ten percent since 1920, according to comprehensive research analyzing rainfall data across Africa from 1920 to 2013. This expansion varies significantly ...

Travel across Africa’s Sahel, where Muslims and Christians unite to fight desertification. Gulnaz Khan travels across Africa’s Sahel, where desertification threatens entire communities. Muslims and ...

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 ...

The time for Desert to Power to provide electricity for all in the Sahel is now,” he urged. G5 Sahel heads of state acknowledged that limited energy access and a dependence on fossil fuels underscores ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 communities ...