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

Back in 2007, nations in the Sahel region of Africa decided to stop the southward spread of the Sahara Desert to the north — fuelled by drought and climate change — by nurturing trees, grasslands, and ...

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 ...

A "green belt" of about 3,000km around the Taklamakan was completed on Nov 28 in the north-western region of Xinjiang, after workers planted the final 100m of trees on the desert's southern edge ...

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