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

Residents, seemingly resigned to their fate, speak of the desert as an inevitable destiny ... mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering ...

Whether it's the dusty landscapes of Africa or parts of the United States ... to deal with conditions they're ill-prepared for. Desertification goes beyond the realm of deserts expanding.

Sossusvlei is part of the Namib Desert, which is considered the world's oldest desert, dating back at least 55 million years.

Africa’s mega-project to help combat climate change, desertification, and land degradation has seen positive strides. The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 ...

Many countries around the world suffer from the problems caused by desertification but it is the Sahel region of Africa where the effects are greatest. The Sahel is a narrow belt of land which ...

USUALLY the soil is regarded as something particularly stable, but this stability is almost wholly due to its normal covering of vegetation. There is always a danger that if the cover of ...

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...

In West Africa, start-up Jetstream Africa—the continent’s largest digital freight forwarder—aims to serve the continent’s 2 million import and export businesses, offering features like AI ...

The mini-grids will assist Eritrea in increasing electrification rates and help in its 2030 renewable energy push ...

Our operations in the Middle East and North Africa have proven effective in reducing irrigation ... ensuring that the initiative directly benefits the communities affected by desertification.” Others ...