Flip through the record from 1981 to 2005, and you see the seasons sweep north and south across Africa as plant growth ... shows that the symptoms of desertification are there, figuring out the cause ...

Africa has nine deserts in total but none are arguably as famous as the Sahara. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million square miles - an area roughly the size of the ...

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 ...

Africa's largest natural arch is located deep in the remote Sahara Desert, on the Ennedi Plateau in Chad, and reaching it is ...

The African desert date is one example of Africa’s naturally drought-resistant trees across the driest parts of Africa. African desert dates are drought-tolerant plants providing food in Africa's ...

Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal (known as the ... As a response, the African Union set up an ambitious continent-wide megaproject in 2007 to address these social-ecological ...

He is credited with developing the “holistic management” framework back in the 1960s and has been leading anti-desertification efforts in Africa for decades now using a rather unorthodox approach of ...

and the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa.

Additional savannas, grasslands, and woodlands are common indications of desertification in arid and semi-arid areas. Well-known examples of this occurrence include, Europe’s Adriatic Sea, the ...

Addis Ababa June 29/2022/ENA/ The Green Legacy initiative is crucial to confront drought and desertification in the Horn of Africa regions, a Sudanese journalist and researcher Hali Yahya said. The ...