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Women install barricades to halt the shifting dunes that threaten to swamp the oasis outside their village of Kaou, Chad. The oasis feeds their only source of farmland, but oases in the region have been shrinking steadily, elders say, in the face of hotter temperatures and stronger winds. The dune fixing is part of a broader intervention to support farming known as the Great Green Wall initiative.
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The Great Green Wall's one of the world's most ambitious eco-projects. Is it working?
Julie Bourdin , Tommy Trenchard, Maya Misikir
It's a global effort with a multibillion dollar price tag. Among its aims: re-greening nearly 250 million acres, planting 4,000 miles of trees, helping farmers, creating jobs, sequestering carbon.
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Gut troubles? This gastroenterologist has tips to help you achieve 'poophoria'
Andrea Muraskin
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) takes a group photo with AI company leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (third from right), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (second from right), Google CEO Sundar Pichai (third from left) and Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang (second from left), at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19.
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India cracks down on satirists for turning its prime minister into a punch line
Omkar Khandekar
The Artemis II crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — splashed down in an Orion space capsule Friday after a 9-day mission to the moon and back.
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After a whirlwind mission to the moon, astronauts are back home. Here's what's next
Brendan Byrne
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Judge blocks new state rules that ban sale of smokable hemp
A Travis County judge agreed with plaintiffs that the some of the rules that took effect March 31 were causing irreparable harm.
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