The Great Green Wall was meant to reshape the Sahel. But as drought, bureaucracy and fading funds take their toll, its legacy ...

Africa's Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometer-wide band of trees across the north of Africa. The African Union launched the project in 2007 with plans for the ...

Everyone knows the Great Wall of China, but likely far fewer have heard of China's "Great Green Wall," which recently hit a major milestone after more than four decades of tree-planting. In November, ...

The vision was of a wall of trees halting the advance of the desert, but the reality is a failed form of green ...

Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project. Restrictions ...

Jeremy Allouche receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making ...

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 ...

In ancient times the shifting sands of the Taklamakan, a desert in China’s north-western Xinjiang region, swallowed up entire cities. Today they still cause trouble. On the edges of the desert, sand ...