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 ...

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

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

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

China’s tree nut consumption is surging and pistachios from U.S. growers — that means California farmers — have emerged as one of the top options. The U.S. supplied 90,675 metric tons of pistachios to ...

The Taklamakan Desert has a name that translates, roughly and ominously, to “The Place of No Return.” For centuries, this 130 ...

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