Experts learn to make straw checkerboard barriers in the desert in Zhongwei city, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on Monday as part of the Foreign Experts' Tour in Ningxia. A group of experts participating in the Foreign Experts' Tour in Ningxia arrived in Zhongwei city, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on Monday to learn about the area's history and achievements in desertification …
Foresters carry saplings up a mountain in Zouma village, Taiping town, Gulin county, Sichuan province, in March 2024. This spring, employees from Sichuan Changjiang Forestation Group planted 6 million saplings of various kinds in Gulin county for water conservation and rocky desertification control in the Chishui River area in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Rocky desertification land covers 449,300 hectares …
How Dubai is pushing back its encroaching deserts Travel Wild/ Alamy A person walks along a deserted road in the Dubai desert covered with sand dunes, towards a foggy Dubai skyscape Desertification threatens food supply in Dubai. "Trees bind the soil, sequester carbon, improve soil fertility and also improve infiltration and recharge of groundwater," says Anna Tengberg, a professor at …
