Chad hopes 'green charcoal' can save vanishing forests

Chad hopes 'green charcoal' can save vanishing forests

As they zigzagged from one machine to another in the searing African sun, the workers were covered in black soot.

Chad hopes ‘green charcoal’ can save vanishing forests

As they zigzagged from one machine to another in the searing African sun, the workers were covered in black soot. But the charcoal they were making is known as "green", and backers hope it can save impoverished Chad from rampant deforestation. Chad, a vast, landlocked country of 19 million people perched at the crossroads of