Today the desert is spreading, and for China's 1.26 billion people this is one of their gravest problems, so we also wanted to learn from the Alashan how the entire Gobi steals thousands of acres ...

Most people think of deserts as sweltering expanses of sand, but not all deserts fit that scorching stereotype. Nestled in northern and northwestern China and southern Mongolia, the Gobi Desert is ...

IN this volume, the narrative of the Sino-Swedish expedition to the Gobi Desert, which was at work ... administrative work of the expedition in China, and was further distracted by a journey ...

A nation-sized solar farm: The influence of China’s desert revolution This enormous solar farm, which covers an area comparable to some small nations, turns an otherwise desolate desert into one of ...

If China can pull off large-scale production of such a plane, it would revolutionize international air travel as we know it.

Gearing up: For a project to photograph the world’s extreme deserts, I wanted to visit the giant sand dunes in China’s Inner Mongolia. The only way into the Gobi is on foot or by camel.