"Building ecological civilization concerns the well-being of the people and the future of the nation." Chinese President Xi ...

China has discovered a massive uranium reserve of an estimated 30 million tons in the Ordos Desert, a significant find for ...

A 2025 satellite photo shows a giant "Y" in the middle of the Taklamakan Desert, where a verdant river and a lengthy "red-white mountain" meet. The intersecting features are also home to an ...

Rows of dark photovoltaic panels stretch across a remote plateau in western China, covering ground that once appeared almost completely barren. The site lies in Talatan Desert in Qinghai Province, ...

Part of the transformed Taklamakan Desert. (Le Yu/Tsinghua University) One of the driest regions in the world is being transformed into a carbon sink through a long-term, large-scale tree planting ...

China is rebuilding the Great Wall of China. However, now they build not with stones, mortar, sand and rubble, designed to stop the enemy hordes. Nowadays they build with trees. Just like the wall ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Nearly half a century ago, China had an audacious ...

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

An ocean of blue solar panels ripples across the ochre dunes of Inner Mongolia's Kubuqi desert, a glittering example of China's almost inconceivably mammoth energy transition. Even as other countries ...

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