This is the story of China's great green wall—a belt of green, defiant trees encircling the Taklamakan Desert in China, and the incredible 46-year effort to achieve this feat. Located in the ...

In wastelands such as the Kubuqi Desert, it has ensured ecologically restorative renewable energy development, thereby providing jobs, promoting solar innovation, and making energy security less ...

Explore China's $48 billion Great Solar Wall project. Learn how it combats desertification, reduces CO2 emissions, creates ...

Succeeding emperors and dynasties continued the construction, spreading westward into the Gobi desert to guard ... to various Great Wall sites. “The Great Wall of China,” In Our Time: BBC ...

New method of regulating plant hormones allows researchers to increase quality and yields of rice crops grown in saline soil.

Frank Pearson A talk in Preston will compare the Great Wall of China and Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of Chin ...

the Kubuqi Desert. "The construction is part of China’s multiyear plan to build a 'solar great wall' designed to generate enough energy to power Beijing," writes NASA's Earth Observatory.

Just north of Beijing, you'll find one of the most famous monuments in the world: the Great Wall of China. Although it's unlikely you'll see the whole thing, you should aim to experience a portion ...

There’s an old trope about how only certain human-made objects, like the Great Wall of China, can be seen from ... The satellite view shows the Black Rock Desert on Aug. 26, on the second ...