You’ve likely heard of the Great Wall of China, that stone and brick marvel of fortifications that stretches vast distances ...

The Taklimakan, nicknamed the "Sea of Death," is China's largest desert. The work to enclose it is part of the larger ...

Just completed multi-decade project in Xinjiang region is intended to help prevent desertification and boost local economies.

China has finished building a 3,046km green wall around the Taklimakan Desert. It is part of a much larger project to keep ...

China is rebuilding the Great Wall of China. However, now they build not with stones, mortar, sand and rubble, designed to ...

Efforts to enclose the desert with trees began in 1978 with the launch of China's "Three-North Shelterbelt" project, colloquially known as the Great Green Wall. More than 30 million hectares ...

China’s largest desert, and the world’s second-largest sand-shifting desert – is now surrounded by a green belt of various trees and shrubs, as well as a solar-based sand blocking technology.

Hailed as "another feat in human history", China has announced the completion of a 3,046-kilometer (1,892-mile) sand-blocking ...

URUMQI - The Taklimakan Desert, known as the "Sea of Death," has been completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt stretching 3,046 km, said local authority in Northwest China's Xinjiang ...