A man in southern Senegal has set himself the ambitious task of planting five million trees over the next five years. This visionary project came to Adama Diémé when he returned home to the ...

Ghostly sentinels: trees in Senegal that have died in a drought. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

The United Nations has recognized an initiative to restore degraded farmlands in sub-Saharan Africa with a special award.

In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making the ...

Every time Jeandarque Sambou walks into her vegetable garden in central Senegal, a region struggling with desertification, ...

Acacia can be deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs or climbers, with alternate, pinnately divided leaves or simple modified leaf-like stalks (phyllodes), and tiny, sometimes fragrant, flowers in short ...

It will involve planting around 590,000 native trees across approximately 90 villages in Mali and Senegal – host of the Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026 – and will cover a combined area of around 2,000 ...