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 ...
The link between climate change and conflict is increasingly at the forefront of security and development discussions. One ...
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 ...
Torrential rains during the Sahel’s rainy season (July to September) caused widespread flooding, displacing millions and submerging tens of thousands of hectares of cropland across Burkina Faso, Chad, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study conducted by University of Maryland researchers. This represents roughly an area the size of South Dakota being ...
Over half of all terrorism-related deaths in the world occur in the Sahel. That's according to a new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace. The vast region in Africa that lies just south ...
Chinguetti, a sacred site, faces climate change and heritage loss. Chinguetti, a historic and sacred site in Islam, holds immense cultural value with ancient manuscripts preserving knowledge in ...