66 billion trees: China’s great green wall offers climate hope — but not a complete solution
The project aims to reduce desertification, curb dust storms, restore degraded land and increase...
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China grows more than a third of its vegetables on a tiny slice of farmland
Fly over northern China in January and the farmland glitters. That sheen is China...
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No sun, no wind: Chinese scientists have managed to convert the impact of rain into electricity, and a small panel has already powered 50 lights at the same time
Rain is great for gardens, but could it also help keep the lights on? A research...
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Why China’s decades-long ambition to green the desert could run dry
At the edge of China’s Taklamakan Desert, rows of trees are slowly edging into one of the...
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El Nino forecast for May, but experts reject ‘super El Nino’ and extreme heat fears as premature
El Nino A farmer stands barefoot on parched, cracked ground. Photo: VCG Responding to...
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China’s win on air pollution unleashed an environmental monster, study finds
Global warming and melting ice in the Arctic. Photograph: (Unsplash) Story...
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China Tried to Block the Gobi Desert with Millions of Trees, Only to Turn a “Biological Void” Into Carbon-Sink Territory
A desert that has swallowed roads and farms for decades just got boxed in by a 3,046-kilometre...
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China’s Taklamakan Desert Revived With River Full of Precious Gemstones
A colorful ridge and winding glacial meltwater river meet amidst dune fields in...
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Archaeologists Opened a Cave Sealed for 40,000 Years and Found the Last Neanderthals on Earth
Archaeologists breached a Gibraltar cave chamber sealed for 40,000 years and found bones exactly...
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India ahead of U.S., China in linking climate change to health risks in news coverage: Study
Overall, fewer than 0.1% of all published articles across the three countries provided substantive...
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China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it’s turned this ‘biological void’ into a carbon sink
Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world’s largest and...
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China grows military-grade rubber in Gobi Desert as war reshapes supply chains
Wchat began as a risky bet in one of China’s harshest landscapes has turned into a showcase for...
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