The Great Green Wall need not be seen as an all or nothing proposition. Those 18 million hectares that have been reclaimed are not nothing, and one imagines the communities in these areas are ...

Green walls can strip pollution from the air -- and some plants do it better than others, according to new research. Researchers planted 10 species on a custom-built 1.4m green wall.

The green wall data was sourced from Esri Living Atlas. “It is a crazy project,” the then Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said when he launched GGW at a conference of Sahel countries in 2005.

China has finished building a 3,046km green wall through the Taklimakan Desert. The large green belt of red willows, saxaul, and other trees will act as a giant sand-stopping barrier.

On this week's Sunday Gardener, Ava Marie and Carrie Engel visit the Green Wall at the Community College of Baltimore County: the purpose it serves and how maintaining it can advance students in ...

A semi-arid landscape surrounds the Sahel village of Ndiawagne Fall on one end of the Great Green Wall project, in Kebemer, Senegal, Nov. 5, 2021 (AP photo by Leo Correa). Click to share on ...

Green walls like this also create gorgeous décor for any space. And plants have been proven to increase health and even happiness when they’re added to home interiors.

Launched by the African Union in 2007, the Great Green Wall (GGW) aims to combat desertification, drought and land degradation across the Sahel with a $33bn reforestation initiative. The goal: a green ...

Vertical green living walls are not just terribly Instagrammable, but also serve the almost equally important function of lowering the temperature around them and helping cut down on energy use, ...

Transparency International Secretariat will leverage the opportunity provided by the newly established Great Green Wall Accelerator to support improvements in the transparency and governance of Great ...