Thursday, July 12, 2012

Senegal begins planting the Great Green Wall against climate change

Ecologist: Senegal's capitol city Dakar sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean on a peninsula. It's at least a thousand miles to the Sahara desert yet the air today is so thick with sand that the tops of buildings disappear in a sandy haze. It's the worst sand storm in a year and people here are worried that climate change will cause these events to be more common. Seasons are shifting across the region. In Senegal the rainy season used to start in July or August but now it doesn't start until September. Decreased...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/12/senegal-great-green-wall
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2012/7/12/1342102638249/Great-Green-Wall---Worker-008.jpg

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