Desertification in Chinguetti
Clip: 9/17/2025 | 2m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
Chinguetti, a sacred site, faces climate change and heritage loss.
Chinguetti, a historic and sacred site in Islam, holds immense cultural value with ancient manuscripts preserving knowledge in science, math, and history. However, this treasure is at risk due to desertification, rising temperatures, and extreme weather. The Sahel region is warming 1.5 times faster than the global average, threatening Chinguetti's heritage.
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Desertification in Chinguetti
Clip: 9/17/2025 | 2m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
Chinguetti, a historic and sacred site in Islam, holds immense cultural value with ancient manuscripts preserving knowledge in science, math, and history. However, this treasure is at risk due to desertification, rising temperatures, and extreme weather. The Sahel region is warming 1.5 times faster than the global average, threatening Chinguetti's heritage.
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♪ (camera clicks) ♪ GULNAZ KHAN: Chinguetti is considered a sacred site in Islam, but it's so much more than that.
It's world heritage.
It is the cultural heritage of humanity.
This legacy, this treasure trove that's hundreds of years old, science, math, it's being lost by desertification, by rising temperatures, more extreme weather.
(camera clicks) The Sahel is uniquely vulnerable to climate change.
It's heating up one and a half times faster than the global average, and intensifying an already extreme environment.
♪ ♪ (footsteps) ♪ (Mohamed speaks French) (Mohamed praying) (Mohamed milking camel) (milk splashing) (Mohamed speaks French) ♪ ♪
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