Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its 2,800-mile-long northern border, and it wants to plant 34 ...

Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project. Restrictions ...

Everyone knows the Great Wall of China, but likely far fewer have heard of China's "Great Green Wall," which recently hit a major milestone after more than four decades of tree-planting. In November, ...

In ancient times the shifting sands of the Taklamakan, a desert in China’s north-western Xinjiang region, swallowed up entire cities. Today they still cause trouble. On the edges of the desert, sand ...

As our climate changes, we fear that warmer temperatures and drier conditions could make life hard for us. In most locations, it’s a future concern that feels uncomfortably near, but for some ...

China is attempting one of the most ambitious climate and land restoration projects on Earth, turning a swath of its arid north into a living barrier of trees to hold back encroaching sand. The ...