For half a century, workers in northern China have been using a technique called "straw checkerboards" to combat ...

For half a century, workers in northern China have been using a technique called ‘straw checkerboards’ to combat ...

China’s Great Green Wall began as one of the most ambitious environmental projects in human history: a decades-long attempt to stop desertification across northern China. After Beijing was swallowed ...

The ‘Green Great Wall’ of China: Scientists issue new warning despite 50 years of work to tame desert growth - For half a ...

The National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has formally relocated its headquarters operations to Kano in line with a presidential directive under the Renewed Hope Agenda. Director-General ...

Grand anti-desertification schemes often fail when trees die and funding dries up — yet one project has broken the mould. Lilin Zheng is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Design, Shanghai ...

In an arid valley near the village of Kourtimale in southern Djibouti, a tattered chain link fence marks the boundaries of what was once Abdi Guelleh's farm. Within it, there's not a speck of greenery ...