According to the research, this enormous desert has received more rainfall than ever before in the past few years.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (2022, July 20). Desert climate overtaking more of Central Asia. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 07 ...

Making of a desert: Central Asia over the ages Date: October 17, 2016 Source: Stanford University Summary: The first large-scale map of rainfall declines revealed by signatures in ancient soil ...

URUMQI — Nestled deep in the heart of the Taklimakan Desert, often referred to as the "place you can enter but can't exit" in the Uygur language, lies an extraordinary botanical garden.

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Desert areas make up almost one quarter of the Earth's surface, or 13 million square miles, and are home to some 500 million people, more than previously thought.

That area grew hotter by 3 degrees over the study period, 1984 to 2017, with vegetation decreasing an average of about 1% a year in the desert portions of the study area.