Everyone knows the Great Wall of China, but likely far fewer have heard of China's "Great Green Wall," which recently hit a major milestone after more than four decades of tree-planting. In November, ...

The cyanobacteria-based crust can withstand winds of 22mph, it is slated to reclaim up to 6,667 hectares in Ningxia over the ...

China has successfully encircled the Taklamakan Desert, the country’s largest and the world’s second-largest shifting desert, with a 1,900-mile (3,050-kilometer) green belt of vegetation and ...

Explore Saudi Arabia's journey to plant 10 billion trees and transform its desert landscape into a greener future through the ...

It’s hard to green the desert. Take China, or Africa’s Sahel region, for example. Their “Great Green Walls,” grand projects to beat back encroaching desert by planting trees, have required decades of ...

Desert trees offer incredible benefits for your yard, but choosing the right tree for the right place is key to a functional and beautiful landscape. Many homes have small front, back, and side yards ...

One of the largest of its species in the Western Hemisphere, a tall baobab tree decorates the southwest corner of the Administration building with its colorful orange flowers. This unique specimen is ...

You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s the story of the Tree of Ténéré, as well as a couple other famous trees found ...

From afar (or even from just 10 feet away), the patch of land just south of Highway 62 and east of the town of Joshua Tree looks like any other undeveloped parcel of Mojave Desert landscape, dotted ...