On November 28, 2024, crews on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert planted the last 100 meters of trees. Chinese state ...

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’s massive tree-planting push has long been hailed as a climate win. But new research shows the country’s ambitious effort to slow land degradation, and fight climate change, has also reshaped ...

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 ...

BEIJING -- China designated March 12 as National Tree Planting Day in 1979, and launched a nationwide voluntary tree-planting ...

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

China is among the countries with the most severe desertification globally, with its desertified areas mainly located in northwest, north and northeast China, which are dubbed the "three-north." The ...

Teachers and students from the First Experimental Primary School plant trees on Thursday in Guangping county of Handan, Hebei ...