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

China is transforming the Taklamakan Desert into a “carbon sink” capable of absorbing CO2 and redefining the arid climate on a large scale.

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 ...

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

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

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

Once one of the driest deserts in the world, Taklamakan is now a lush, fertile landscape animated with billions of trees.

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

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

Scientists observe a new issue emerge after planting millions of trees in the Gobi Desert.

For more than four decades, China has been working to halt the spread of desertification through the Three-North Shelterbelt programme, colloquially known as the Great Green Wall.

GT: You were previously invited to visit Xinjiang for a tour and on-site observation. Would you be willing to share one or two of your favorite photographs taken in Xinjiang? What stories lie behind ...