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Nigeria is relocating the headquarters of its Great Green Wall agency from the capital to Kano, putting decision-makers right where the environmental action happens. The move promises better coordination and faster progress on Africa's ambitious project to push back the desert.
A massive tree-planting project across Africa is reversing desert expansion and transforming communities once threatened by the advancing Sahara. In Nigeria alone, farmers who lost everything to dust storms are now watching their land turn green again.
After planting 66 billion trees around the massive Taklamakan Desert, China has transformed its edges from expanding sand into vegetation that actively removes carbon from the atmosphere. New research shows this ambitious project is working.