However, an ambitious reforestation programme known as the Great Green Wall aims to reverse this process. The project has been a pipedream in Africa since the eighties, when the idea of fighting ...

Environmentalists are urging the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to reconsider the implementation ...

Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall, a mosaic of reforestation efforts to stop desertification, has been plagued by delays and challenges. Some reforestation efforts, however, have tasted ...

The project, called the Great Green Wall, began in 2007 with the aim of planting a nine-mile-wide belt of trees and shrubs that would extend from the coast of Senegal on the Atlantic to Djibouti ...

Africa’s “Great Green Wall” initiative is a proposed 8,000-kilometer line of trees meant to hold back the Sahara from expanding southward. New climate simulations looking to both the region ...

Sixteen years after its launch, the Great Green Wall, a huge project designed to promote peace and revive the arid African Sahara, is facing the risk of collapse due to terrorist threats ...

It was a simple plan to combat a complex problem. The plan: plant a Great Green Wall of trees 10 miles wide and 4,350 miles long, bisecting a dozen countries from Senegal in the west to Djibouti ...

Longwood Gardens is set to unveil North America’s largest green wall installation tomorrow! The extraordinary vegetated wall is installed at the historic garden’s new East Conservatory Plaza.

Against this new foe, China is building another Great Wall, this time a green one. The Three North Shelterbelt Project is by far the world’s largest tree-planting project. Since 1978 ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The ambitious initiative known as the Great Green Wall received a boost this week with a pledge of $14.3bn in ...

However, an ambitious reforestation programme known as the Great Green Wall aims to reverse this process. The project has been a pipedream in Africa since the eighties, when the idea of fighting ...