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

China has spent decades turning the edge of the Taklamakan Desert into a living barrier, planting trees and shrubs where bare sand once stretched to the horizon. That effort is now large enough that ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...