Discover how Africa is combatting the encroachment of the Sahara Desert in this insightful video. - **0:00** Introduction - * ...

More than 20 African countries banded together to combat the spread of the Sahara Desert by planting a giant wall of trees to run across the continent. This wall will stretch for around 7,000 km ...

The Sahara Desert is expanding, threatening ecosystems and livelihoods. But what can be done to stop it? In this video, we explore potential solutions to halt the desert's relentless spread across ...

In 1966, Newton Jibunoh drove from London to Nigeria, crossing the Sahara on the way. So began his mission to fight the spread of deserts.

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

Africa's biggest country that's 90 percent Sahara Desert and almost totally empty Unsurprisingly this largely untouched country is rich in natural resources and boasts seven UNESCO World Heritage ...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but an unusual shift in the weather pattern has caused storms to move where they typically wouldn’t.

The arid region sometimes develops lakes after heavy rain, hinting at how the desert may have once had a different climate.

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...

A man running the length of Africa is eyeing the most difficult part of the challenge - crossing the Sahara Desert. Russell Cook, from Worthing, West Sussex, had originally planned to complete 360 ...

The purpose of the program is to help African countries deal with the spread of the desert in the Sahara region, and to create an 8,000 kilometer-long green buffer zone in the area by the year 2030.

Our results demonstrate the sensitivity of the Sahara Desert to changes in past climate. They explain how this sensitivity affects rainfall across north Africa.