The Great Green Wall aims to regreen 247 million acres of degraded land across Africa's Sahel region by 2030. It could cost over $36 billion.

The Great Green Wall initiative is a tree planting restoration project that stretches from Senegal to Djibouti, 5,000 miles (8,000km) across Africa's Sahel region.

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 ...

The Great Green Wall project has shifted its approach to Sahel desertification and mitigating climate change in Africa.

Armed groups from across Nigeria and from neighbouring countries in the Sahel are believed to be behind many attacks. Raids ...

While climate change is the most significant factor for desertification, it is crucial not to ignore that human activities are also partially responsible.

A photojournalist journeys to the Sahara-Sahel desert of remote northern Africa to catalogue the state of emergency on the ground ...

Human activities, like overgrazing, deforestation or poor irrigation, further degrade some of the already arid parts of the Sahel, resulting in desertification.

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… ...

A lot is at stake, with mounting evidence jihadi fighters who had long operated in the Sahel region have crossed from Benin and settled in Nigeria.

Desertification made worse by climate change is outpacing a U.N.-backed project to protect millions of people in Africa's Sahel region.