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China’s Badain Jaran Desert, witness to human-nature harmony
By Dong Siyu,
Tana, a 40-year-old herder, lives by a lake in the Badain Jaran Desert, north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. "My family has...
Chinese scientists succeed in speed rice breeding in desert greenhouses
By Jiang Jianke,
A group of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) recently announced the success of a trial planting to halve...
Swarms of desert locust spotted in parts of Ethiopia
Desert locust swarms have been detected in five regions and one city administration across Ethiopia, an official said Saturday.
Speaking at a press conference to...
China opens last section of world’s first rail loop around desert
By Aldark
On June 16, the Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the last section of a 2,712-km rail loop line around...
Chinese researchers fighting desertification create botanical garden in desert
By Li Yanan
In northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, a barren desert area once plagued by quicksand in the Turpan Basin, is now a...
