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 ...

China’s heavy reliance on imported natural rubber has long been a strategic weak point. Rubber is a critical input for automotive manufacturing, industrial equipment, and a range of military systems, ...

Volunteers have launched their own searches in the dense desert near Savannah Guthrie’s Tucson home, but the Sheriff’s ...

Mountains rise up in every direction, creating views that never get boring. The air smells clean and fresh, nothing like the ...

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

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

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

There’s a hospital, grocery stores, and restaurants where the food is good and the portions are generous. Eagle Lake sits just north of town, offering fishing and beautiful views. The lake is one of ...

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 ...

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 ...