China has successfully encircled the Taklamakan Desert, the country’s largest and the world’s second-largest shifting desert, with a 1,900-mile (3,050-kilometer) green belt of vegetation and ...

China has finished building a 3,046km green wall through the Taklimakan Desert. The large green belt of red willows, saxaul, and other trees will act as a giant sand-stopping barrier. The Taklimakan ...

China is rebuilding the Great Wall of China. However, now they build not with stones, mortar, sand and rubble, designed to ...

BOKI DIAWE, Senegal (Reuters) – Every night Moussa Kamara works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves but at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job – ...

The idea was striking in its ambition: African countries aimed to plant trees in a nearly 5,000-mile line spanning the entire continent, creating a natural barrier to hold back the Sahara Desert as ...

A farmer sits in the shade of a tree in the Great Green Wall site in Simiri, Niger - Copyright AFP/File Issouf SANOGO A farmer sits in the shade of a tree in the ...

Desertification made worse by climate change is outpacing a U.N.-backed project to protect millions of people in Africa’s Sahel region. Few climate adaption projects can match the sheer ambition — or ...

Springtime, and grape grower Hao Ling and her husband are busy digging the mounds of sandy soil that protected their vines during the long, cold winter of the Gobi Desert. It’s a busy season for the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KEBEMER, Senegal (AP) — The idea was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KEBEMER, Senegal (AP) — The idea was ...

KEBEMER, Senegal (AP) — The idea was striking in its ambition: African countries aimed to plant trees in a nearly 5,000-mile line spanning the entire continent, creating a natural barrier to hold back ...

KEBEMER – The idea was striking in its ambition: African countries aimed to plant trees in a nearly 5,000-mile line spanning the entire continent, creating a natural barrier to hold back the Sahara ...