China has finished building a 3,046km green wall through the Taklimakan Desert. The large green belt of red willows, saxaul, and other trees will act as a giant sand-stopping barrier.

Dubbed the “Green Great Wall,” this effort also involves meticulous experimentation to identify tree species resilient to arid climates, such as poplars, which are now being cultivated ...

And the green wall may have even turned the sands back a fraction. A decade ago 27.2% of China’s total land area was desert. Now that proportion has fallen to 26.8%.

This resilient plant contributes to the " green great wall " - the weapon across the arid northern region that China uses to fight desertification - but it is also suspected of causing an ...

From the 7th century to the 3rd century B.C., Chinese dynasties constructed the 13,171-mile-long Great Wall of China.

The Great Green Wall need not be seen as an all or nothing proposition. Those 18 million hectares that have been reclaimed are not nothing, and one imagines the communities in these areas are ...

But the newfound fortification is not part of the Great Wall of Qi, either, as that was built later, in around 441 B.C., Yuri Pines, a professor of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of ...