For more than four decades, China has been working to halt the spread of desertification through the Three-North Shelterbelt ...

An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands with greenery, and, in the process, pull excess carbon dioxide out of the sky.

Far from China’s traditional tropical plantations, researchers have turned to the Gobi Desert as ...

The clean energy revolution lifting rural lives in Northeast China is also unfolding at a grand scale in the country's arid ...

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 ...

In parts of China, visitors have reported dunes that hum, boom, or whistle when wind passes over them or when someone slides ...

Once eroded by wild wind and sand, the Hexi Corridor is now a modern agricultural region using local conditions to its best advantage, and in the process growing a number of crops popular with ...

China plans to build at least 39 data centers in the desert regions of Xinjiang and Qinghai, outfitted with over 115,000 Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs. These advanced chips have been under a US export ban ...

An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands with greenery, and, in the process, pull excess carbon dioxide out of the sky.