While the Sahara Desert is an important ecosystem in its own right, its human neighbors in the Sahel would like it to stop encroaching on their environment. [Andrew Millison] took a look at how ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed ...

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

"The desert became green again, the animals have food again, and the plants and palm trees came back to life," she said ... rains triggered floods that killed at least 18 people in areas of southern ...

Activists are planting trees in an effort to protect disappearing forests in Mali, but residents are cutting and selling ...

Almost like a scene from Mars, or the Dune movies, astronauts aboard the International Space Station recently photographed ...

Satellite images reveal ample water filling desert lakes that are usually bone dry for years at a time Heavy rains that drenched portions of the Sahara Desert this past summer filled lakes in ...

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

Satellite images have shown lakes emerging in the Sahara ... Chevallier added: "The desert became green again, the animals ...