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.

Commercial, strategic, and scientific motivations drive China’s growing interests in the Arctic. Russia, an Arctic power, has simultaneously been a reluctant partner and competitor to China in the ...

The desert begins just a few kilometers from the ... On average, there are 280 days of sunshine per year in the region, Wang explains. China wants to move away from fossil fuels The planned ...

At 13,000 tons, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Polar Star is a mammoth vessel made to crash through Arctic ice more than ... have fallen far behind Russia, and China is rapidly gaining ground with ...