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(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...

Efforts to enclose the desert with trees began in 1978 with the launch of China's "Three-North Shelterbelt" project, colloquially known as the Great Green Wall. More than 30 million hectares ...

To combat desertification, China has encircled Taklimakan Desert with a sand-blocking green belt! This green development is a crucial part of the Three North Shelter Forest Program (TNSFP), which ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...

Temperatures in the Al-Nafūd desert can climb as high as 55 degrees Celsius during the summer, making this drastic change a rare meteorological anomaly.

Sahara Desert is flooding after receiving a year's worth of rain in 2 days 00:18. A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert ...