Drones will soon help expand the “Great Green Wall,” a vast forest belt meant to stop desert areas like the Gobi and Taklamakan from spreading. Known officially as the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest ...

Hotan's air pollution is from the desert itself. The city sits on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, and the wind loves to carry sand straight into town. PM2.5 levels get ridiculously high ...

In the foothills of the Santa Rosa Mountains, the 68 degree Fahrenheit weather couldn’t have been more ideal as more than 75 people joined a tour of Pacific Date Farm and The Packhouse at Aziz Farms ...

Tree counts could skyrocket this spring as drones are deployed to seed the "Great Green Wall" — a huge belt of trees in the north of China that is being planted to prevent the Gobi and ...

The High Desert has small-name grocery stores ... Hesperia store for Indian and other Asian grocery items. 52 Asian Food Market: New Asian food market in Hesperia. Affordable prices and authentic ...

At the British Library at roughly the same time there was “A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang”—items from a cluster of caves between the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts that had been filled with ...

Palm Desert Food & Wine 2025 kicked off with Champagne wishes and caviar dreams at Wildest Restaurant + Bar on Monday night, where guests gathered for an indulgent evening during the Louis Roederer ...

Don't worry, desert dwellers, the past week of storms and cloudy skies is behind us — and there's plenty of local events to help you soak up the sunshine. From fashion shows to a food and wine ...