Conflict, drought, skyrocketing prices for food and fuel, and the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have combined to create a massive humanitarian emergency in the region. People in the Sahel ...

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 ...

The communities around Lake Chad have always lived by its water rhythms. Now, as climate change impacts intensify, they must ...

The Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching from Senegal to Djibouti, has long been ground zero for climate-driven human catastrophe. Decades of drought, deforestation and overgrazing have turned vast ...

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 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 ...

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 ...