This battle can be won': desert expert reveals how China's technology, funding and strategies aid ambitious environmental ...

An ambitious and bold project looks to help desertification in Africa and to combat African nations from being swallowed up by the Sahara Desert.

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

By Leonie Joubert Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their ...

Residents say the desert is their destiny ... Such "green belts" have been proposed on a continent-wide scale as Africa's "Great Green Wall" as well as locally, in towns like Chinguetti.

Residents say the desert is their destiny ... belts” have been proposed on a continent-wide scale as Africa’s “Great Green Wall” as well as locally, in towns like Chinguetti.