Did you know the largest desert in the world isn’t hot? It’s cold! Surprised? A desert doesn’t need to be sandy—it just has to be very dry. Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth.

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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.

Surrounded by the seemingly unending emptiness of the Coachella Valley, the 11 works in the 2025 Desert X bring human ...