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.

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 ...

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 ...

The motivation for this resolution was the Parties' concern about the deteriorating situation of desertification in all regions, which has far-reaching implications for the attainment of the ...

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 ...

(Read more about the wall holding back a desert.) So while infusing clay into the sandy soils of areas such as North Africa and the Middle East, what about the rest of the world? Globally soils ...