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

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 ...

Researchers analyzed 59 years of data to show that adding bacteria to desert sand can rapidly create new soil.

Governor Ahmed Aliyu has officially flagged off the 2025 Tree Planting Campaign in Sokoto New City, Kasarawa, with a call for collective action to curb desert encroachment in the state. The Governor ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China’s massive tree-planting push has long been hailed as a climate win. But new research shows the country’s ambitious effort to ...

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.

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