Quiet greening of West Africa
The Sahel region of West Africa is being hit hard by climate change. But from the country of Burkina Faso, Mark Hertsgaard spotlights a small green miracle that’s helping farmers fight the warming trend. The secret, he says, is trees. On PRI’s The World.
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