China's largest desert is now encircled by thousands of trees. The forest currently stretches over about 2,000 miles around the Taklamakan desert in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.

A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws ... from the Rainbow Forest Museum toward Pintado Point. If you can stay longer, include a walk to Agate House, take the trail into the Blue Mesa ...

So, the land waited for years, close to the Lakewood-Browns Mill community, a food desert where ... volunteers to turn the old farm into the United States' largest free food forest.

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ON the western horizon of the Libyan Desert, as viewed from the summit of the Great Pyramid of Ghizeh, a conical hill stands in solitary grandeur, far removed from the route of desert travellers.

Back in the UAE, communities living nearby have already benefited from the ability to turn the desert around them into fertile land. The arrival of the produce grown using nanoclay proved ...

For just a few months each year, these clouds blanket the mountains, transforming the arid landscape into ... In a desert climate where water is the most precious resource, the forest is vital ...