Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar-led research suggests climate change, increased monsoon rainfall and expanded groundwater pumping have driven substantial vegetation growth in the Thar ...

Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project.The ban on ...

In the heart of Central Asia lies the Aralkum Desert, a stark reminder of one of the world’s most severe environmental disasters. Once the seabed of the thriving Aral Sea, this vast expanse of 60,000 ...

Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a ...

The new study, published April 3 in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability, analyzed satellite data from 2001 to 2023. Mishra and his team found that the desert became, on average, 38% greener during ...

China's "Great Green Wall" campaign is a decades-old anti-desertification project credited with "greening" over 90 million hectares.

Restrictions on traditional grazing are a key part of China’s “Great Green Wall” campaign, a decades-old anti-desertification project credited with “greening” over 90 million ha.