Torrential rains during the Sahel’s rainy season (July to September) caused widespread flooding, displacing millions and submerging tens of thousands of hectares of cropland across Burkina Faso, Chad, ...

Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria, has launched the Scaling-Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall Area ...

New climate modeling studies suggest that large-scale solar and wind farms in the Sahara could significantly increase rainfall in the region, potentially transforming its ecosystem. The effect is ...

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Rising greenhouse gases have boosted rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa, easing droughts that killed 100,000 people in the 1970s and 1980s, in a rare positive effect of ...

Extreme weather-related disasters are increasing in frequency around the world. See how climate change affected different regions in the past year, with mounting economic and societal ramifications.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Contrary to popular conception, Lake Chad is not shrinking; new research shows that the volume of water in the lake has increased since its low ...

The Sahel region of Africa has become one of the world’s most dangerous and unstable security zones. Stretching across states ...