Sahara desert News

RSS

13 stories

Members of the Vohoko Est cooperative with tree seedlings in the nursery, Tewaka, Burkina Faso, where Tree Aid has begun a 12,000 hectare community-owned agroforestry project.

Collaboration, data and tracking move Africa’s Great Green Wall toward its goal

Spoorthy Raman 7 Mar 2025

The sand cat’s exceptional hearing helps the species hunt in the desert at night. Here, a sand cat was caught on camera with a meal clutched in its mouth.

Shining a spotlight on the wide-roaming sand cat ‘king of the desert’

Petro Kotzé 11 Dec 2023

Women picking the nutritionally rich baobab fruits in Ghana.

Progress is slow on Africa’s Great Green Wall, but some bright spots bloom

Spoorthy Raman 3 Aug 2023

Mali’s centuries-old pastoralist traditions wilt as the climate changes

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2021

Wildlife decimated by the surge in conflicts in the Sahara and the Sahel

Mongabay.com 9 May 2018

Scimitar-horned oryx return to the Sahara nearly two decades after going extinct in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2017

There are only three Saharan addax antelope left in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 6 May 2016

Two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have reliable access to fresh water

Mike Gaworecki 15 Feb 2016

How the Sahara keeps the Amazon rainforest going

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2015

86 percent of big animals in the Sahara Desert are extinct or endangered

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2013

The vanishing Niger River imperils tourism and livelihoods in the desert

Linda Leila Diatta 4 Jun 2012

Niger creates desert park bigger than Hungary

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2012

Great Green Wall gets go ahead

Jeremy Hance 28 Feb 2011

you're currently offline