WUWEI, China, June 3 (Reuters) - After a hard morning planting fresh shoots in the dunes on the edge of the Gobi Desert, 78-year-old farmer Wang Tianchang retrieves a three-stringed lute from his ...

After a hard morning planting fresh shoots in the dunes on the edge of the Gobi Desert, 78-year-old farmer Wang Tianchang retrieves a three-stringed lute from his shed, sits down beneath the fiery ...

China has been at the forefront of this battle, ... Reforestation efforts beat back the desert near Beijing 0 Comment(s) Print E-mail CNTV, June 18, 2014 Adjust font size: ...

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Tree-planting has been at the heart of China's environmental efforts for decades as the country seeks to turn barren deserts and marshes near its borders into farmland and screen the capital ...

Reforestation has long been viewed as one of the more hopeful climate interventions: a process that can, in theory, restore ...

The government of China has announced its plans to plant forests in 2018 that will occupy at least 6.6 million hectares, equivalent to the size of Ireland.

Kumtag, China's sixth largest desert, is expanding by one to four meters eastward annually. The expansion poses a threat to the Mogao Grottoes, also known as the Caves of 1,000 Buddhas, in ...

China's reforestation programme is under scrutiny as land becomes increasingly scarce and trees are no longer able to offset the impact of climate change × Our award-winning reporting has moved ...