In Mali, Aida M'bo is leading efforts to combat deforestation, exacerbated by the population's reliance on firewood. The ...

Even some of her fellow tree-planters that day were to blame. Salimata Diabate, who took part in the ceremony last month, ...

A rare deluge of rain has created new lakes in the rolling sand dunes of parts of the Sahara, one of the driest places on Earth.

Yahya highlighted how "one of the most promising projects in the world to combat desertification is the Chinese Green Wall, which achieved significant success all along the Kubuqi Desert ...

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

the world's largest hot desert. These images depict a period approximately 6,000-11,000 years ago called the Green Sahara or North African Humid Period. There is widespread climatological evidence ...

But shocking before and after images show exactly what happened when the Sahara ... a huge green lake had emerged at the site, after runoff from a storm partially filled the ephemeral desert ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.