Progress on Africa's 'Great Green Wall' Stalls as Seedlings Die Off

Yale e360
Oct 8, 2025, 8:10 am110 pts
Countries in the Sahel region of Africa have made little progress on the "Great Green Wall," a 5,000-mile-long band of trees planned for the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Even where communities succeed in planting new trees, few seedlings actually survive, new research shows. Read more on E360 →

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