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Enormous government project nearly 50 years in the making encircles desert with trees: 'The Great Green Wall'
The work to enclose it is part of the larger Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, also known as China's Great Green Wall. This broader project that launched in 1978 represents one of the world ...
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Collaboration, data and tracking move Africa’s Great Green Wall toward its goal
After years of delays due to insufficient funding and prevailing conflicts, the Great Green Wall in the Sahel, aimed at preventing desertification, gained momentum with an accelerator program ...
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Invasive, devastating emerald ash borer found in Dallas' Great Trinity Forest, elsewhere
The invasive emerald ash borer beetle has been confirmed in the Dallas city limits, city officials say, including the Great Trinity Forest. The non-native small green beetle is devastating to ash ...
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Why is China quietly helping Africa build a Great Green Wall across the Sahara?
About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...