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May 17, 2024 · It experiences a dry climate with distinct wet and dry seasons. The Sahel is characterized by a harsh, arid climate with a short rainy season and a prolonged dry season, making it susceptible to droughts and desertification. The Sahel's name is derived from the Arabic word for "shore" or "coast."
1 day ago · What is the climate of the Sahara Desert? The Sahara exhibits great climatic variability within its borders, with two major climatic regimes differentiating along a north-south axis: the desert’s northern latitudes are arid subtropical and have two rainy seasons, while the southern ones, although also arid, are more tropical and have only one ...
Apr 30, 2024 · The Sahel is a bioclimate stretching across the African continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Rainer Lesniewski/iStock/Getty Images. The African Union formally began the project in...
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1 day ago · The Council’s August 2021 presidential statement on West Africa and the Sahel recognised the “adverse effects of climate change, ecological changes and natural disasters, including through drought, desertification, and land degradation, as well as their impacts on food security, among other factors, on the security and stability of West ...
May 4, 2024 · The subtropical high over North Africa in the summer sits at roughly 2°W and exhibits a poleward shift typically of about 1.5° in 2066–2100 compared to 1980–2014, which is statistically ...
4 days ago · The climate of the Sahara has undergone enormous variations between wet and dry over the last few hundred thousand years, believed to be caused by long-term changes in the North African climate cycle that alters the path of the North African Monsoon – usually southward.
May 14, 2024 · As climate change develops in the Sahel, namely the lack of rainfall and desertification, increasing segments of the population of this region will have their food security taken. As people migrate to arable land to raise crops and livestock, increased competition over diminishing land will lead to conflict.
