China has a new Great Wall, but this one isn't built of stone and mortar to repel marauding invaders from the north. Instead, ...

China is transforming the Taklamakan Desert into a “carbon sink” capable of absorbing CO2 and redefining the arid climate on a large scale.

The Taklamakan Desert has a name that translates, roughly and ominously, to “The Place of No Return.” For centuries, this 130,000-square-mile expanse in western China was exactly that — a furnace of ...

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.