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

China set out to halt dust storms, reclaim deserts and lock away carbon by planting trees at a scale no country had attempted before. In the process, it has unintentionally rewritten how water moves ...

In ancient times the shifting sands of the Taklamakan, a desert in China’s north-western Xinjiang region, swallowed up entire cities. Today they still cause trouble. On the edges of the desert, sand ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: According to Reuters, China grew 116,000 square miles of trees, increasing the country’s total forest coverage from 10 percent in 1949 to roughly 25 ...

The Taklamakan Desert, located in China’s Xinjiang region, was long considered a blank space on the map. It is one of the driest places on Earth. Even during the wet season, it receives only around ...

a Spatial pattern of tree numbers within a 0.01° grid. b Latitudinal distribution of tree density and total tree numbers, with shaded areas indicating the standard deviation of the estimated tree ...