The Great Green Wall aims to transform degraded lands into productive food sources and combat hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Niger, the World Food Program, along with local governments and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Nearly half a century ago, China had an audacious ...

China's "Great Green Wall" is a huge ecological engineering project to slow the expansion of the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts in the country's north. Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion ...

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, ...

It's a global effort with a multibillion dollar price tag. Among its aims: re-greening nearly 250 million acres, planting 4,000 miles of trees,... In an arid valley near the village of Kourtimale in ...

Women install barricades to halt the shifting dunes that threaten to swamp the oasis outside their village of Kaou, Chad. The oasis feeds their only source of farmland, but oases in the region have ...

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 ...