Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a ...

Scientists observe a new issue emerge after planting millions of trees in the Gobi Desert.

China has been planting millions of trees to slow the advance of the Gobi Desert, but the vast new forests have also reduced the water available in parts of the country.

Reforestation in the Taklamakan is already absorbing more CO2 than it emits. However, the project raises environmental concerns.

By precise numbers, it has reduced the average carbon content in the desert air from 416 parts per million to 413 ppm.

China’s vast tree-planting drive around the Taklamakan Desert may be turning shifting sands into a carbon sink. But can ...

For more than four decades, China has been working to halt the spread of desertification through the Three-North Shelterbelt ...

Everyone knows the Great Wall of China, but likely far fewer have heard of China's "Great Green Wall," which recently hit a major milestone after more than four decades of tree-planting. In November, ...

But it is one that is now improving. In 1988, the Chinese firm Elion Resources Group partnered with local people and the Beijing government to combat desertification. Almost three decades later, one ...

The Taklamakan Desert has a name that translates, roughly and ominously, to “The Place of No Return.” For centuries, this 130,000-square-mile expanse in western China was exactly that — a furnace of ...

China's ambitious tree-planting program has transformed the Taklamakan Desert, once known as "The Place of No Return," into a ...