China's enormous Gobi Desert is the size of Peru and expanding 1,400 square miles per year due to water source depletion, over-foresting, and over-grazing. Source: Wikipedia.

China's enormous Gobi Desert is the size of Peru and expanding 1,400 square miles per year due to water source depletion, over-foresting, and over-grazing. Source: Wikipedia.

Many people in this area are from families that fled Minqin, at the western end of the Tengger Desert, during China’s Great Famine from 1958 to 1962, when tens of millions died.

Nearly 20 percent of China is desert, and it’s expanding — by one estimate to 21,000 square miles more desert than in 1975, about the size of Croatia. The Tengger ...

YINCHUAN, July 11 (Xinhua) -- On the southeast edge of the Tengger Desert in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region sits a new desert library, awakening the lonely land with an oasis of ...