Nikolas Kozloff3d ago

Protect #Chinguetti #library from #climatechange and #sand dunes

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/27/the-man-guarding-mauritanias-rare-islamic-texts?shem=dsdf,sharefoc,agadiscoversdl,,sh/x/discover/m1/4 #mauritania

‘I have to protect them’: The man guarding Mauritania’s rare Islamic books

Chinguetti was once a popular desert library town attracting scholars from the Muslim world to its precious collections.

Al Jazeera
Maria De AgostoNov 13
#libraries #books #worldheritage #Chinguetti
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/12/city-of-libraries-chinguetti-mauritania-sahara-unesco-preservation
The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands

Desert settlement of Chinguetti faces rising sands, dwindling tourism and insecurity due to conflict in neighbouring Mali

The Guardian
Nikolas Kozloff has movedFeb 24, 2025
Save #Chinguetti https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/02/23/surrounded-by-an-ocean-of-sand-desertification-pushes-ancient-city-to-the-brink-of-oblivio #climate #climatechange
Climate change threatens to cover this ancient African city with sand

Chinguetti, Mauritania is home to some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts. It could soon be swallowed by the sand.

euronews
Robert SanscartierFeb 23, 2025

'Surrounded by an ocean of sand': Desertification pushes ancient city to the brink of oblivion

What we used to think of as the worst case scenario five to 10 years ago is now actually looking like a more likely scenario than we had in mind

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/02/23/surrounded-by-an-ocean-of-sand-desertification-pushes-ancient-city-to-the-brink-of-oblivio

#Chinguetti #Mauritania #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Climate change threatens to cover this ancient African city with sand

Chinguetti, Mauritania is home to some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts. It could soon be swallowed by the sand.

euronews
BC Info BotNov 28, 2023
The Tyee: When Art Is Freighted with the Weight of History, Where’s the Light? https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/11/28/From-Slanders-Brand-Exhibition/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #EnghelabStreet,aRevolutionThroughBooks:Iran1979–1983 #RachelKhedooriUntitled(IraqBookProject) #FromSlander’sBrandexhibition #TheHistoriesHerodotus #OanaSuteuKhintirian #Cheltenhamtypeface #BeyondPaperfilm #PolygonGallery #RachelKhedoori #RonTeradaTL;DR #HannahDarabi #Chinguetti #RonTerada #TheVerge
When Art Is Freighted with the Weight of History, Where’s the Light? | The Tyee

‘From Slander’s Brand’ is a monument to global conflict. Our responses to it may be as illuminating as the art itself.

The Tyee
🇪🇺 DG DEFIS #StrongerTogetherMar 23, 2023

#ImageOfTheDay

#Chinguetti is a famous @UNESCO World Heritage Site in #Mauritania 🇲🇷

The town is vulnerable to the consequences of #ClimateChange ♨️🚱 and at risk of being buried in the sand because of #desertification 🏜️

⬇️#Copernicus #Sentinel2 🇪🇺🛰️ image of 10 March

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/defis_eu/status/1638852948233973762

🇪🇺 DG DEFIS #StrongerTogether (@defis_eu)

#ImageOfTheDay #Chinguetti is a famous @UNESCO World Heritage Site in #Mauritania 🇲🇷 The town is vulnerable to the consequences of #ClimateChange ♨️🚱 and at risk of being buried in the sand because of #desertification 🏜️ ⬇️#Copernicus #Sentinel2 🇪🇺🛰️ image of 10 March

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