Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a ...

Rosie Crocker grew up in the Phoenix area surrounded by mostly concrete, as she remembers it. It wasn’t until she moved to ...

China has spent decades turning the edge of the Taklamakan Desert into a living barrier, planting trees and shrubs where bare ...

Grist reports solar farms, like the Gemini project, can enhance biodiversity, supporting rare plants like the threecorner ...

Once one of the driest deserts in the world, Taklamakan is now a lush, fertile landscape animated with billions of trees.

As large solar projects become more common across the Mountain West, questions remain about their environmental footprint, ...

For more than four decades, China has been working to halt the spread of desertification through the Three-North Shelterbelt ...

China's ambitious "Great Green Wall" project has transformed the arid edges of the Taklamakan Desert into a significant ...

China’s vast tree-planting drive around the Taklamakan Desert may be turning shifting sands into a carbon sink. But can ...

Indoor gardening can sometimes feel like a daunting task, especially if your heart is set on creating a desert oasis right in ...

For the past 15 years, Philip Rundel has been developing this book through his long-term relationship and travels in deserts of the Southwestern United States, northern Chile and southern Africa. His ...

Across the Mountain West, groundwater is the unseen force keeping springs flowing, wetlands green, and desert plants alive. Now, a new interactive tool is making that hidden water easier to see.