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.

China’s 3,050-km green belt encircles the Taklamakan Desert—equal in size to Germany—to block sandstorms and desert expansion with solar-powered vegetation. A renewable energy mega-project ...

This is the story of China's great green wall—a belt of green, defiant trees encircling the Taklamakan Desert in China, and the incredible 46-year effort to achieve this feat. Located in the ...