Mortality risk from drought is extremely high across subtropical Africa in both hemispheres 1.In the Sahel — the transition zone between the tropical climate of the Guinean coast region and the ...

Southern Ocean warming may have a greater impact than Arctic warming in some regions, particularly affecting tropical ...

Climate variability is becoming a key factor in shaping economic stability, agricultural productivity, and water security ...

Executive Secretary of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS). The 2013 Dakar Declaration on Irrigation in the Sahel had established an ambitious vision to ...

"The fact that some soil is not productive because you're in a drought doesn't mean that the desert has advanced and it will never retreat. That was the fear when an area of the Sahel went into ...

Our new report, Changing climate, changing realities: migration in the Sahel, looks at ways climate change is affecting people’s lives, with case studies from Mali and Sudan. In the Sahel region, ...

I use a hierarchy of climate models and observations for developing fundamental theories and structure my group’s research around an evolving set of “use cases” such as the Sahel drought. A leading ...

I recently traveled to visit our programs in Burkina Faso where the hunger crisis is threatening the lives of children and families in a country already suffering from conflict and drought. This ...

Desertification close desertificationThe spread of desert conditions in arid regions due to human activities, drought or climate ... but it is the Sahel region of Africa where the effects are ...