Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.

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

China's ambitious "Great Green Wall" project has transformed the arid edges of the Taklamakan Desert into a significant ...

China accelerates desert restoration: 3.5 billion-year-old microbes stabilize sand and protect ecosystems in months.

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

But it is one that is now improving. In 1988, the Chinese firm Elion Resources Group partnered with local people and the ...

Scientists looking for ways to grow crops in desert soil have landed on a surprising solution: pineapples. By adding relatively small amounts of pineapple fibers to sandy soil, researchers were able ...

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 ...

Chinese scientists have developed a microbe-based method to turn desert sand into stable soil, offering a new tool against ...