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.

Smart machines and drones turn the desert into a forest, boosting China’s struggle against desertification and sand storms In this spring, the challenging task of reforestation on the edge ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Forest flies showed increased avoidance of heat, potentially explained by higher sensitivity in their antennae's molecular heat receptors, while desert flies were instead actively attracted to ...

The idea behind the Great Koala National Park, or GKNP, is to stitch together the 140,000 hectares (346,000 acres) of national parks and 175,000 hectares (432,000 acres) of state forest into a ...