Xinjiang authorities say the Taklimakan Desert, China’s largest and one of the world’s most hostile sand seas, has been fully ...

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

China has a new Great Wall, but this one isn't built of stone and mortar to repel marauding invaders from the north. Instead, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

China is accelerating its push to become a green superpower, transforming deserts like Inner Mongolia’s Kubuqi into vast solar hubs. Expanding wind and solar bases across Gansu and Xinjiang in the ...

An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands with greenery, and, in the process, pull excess carbon dioxide out of the sky.

An ocean of blue solar panels ripples across the ochre dunes of Inner Mongolia's Kubuqi desert, a glittering example of China's almost inconceivably mammoth energy transition. Even as other countries ...