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Xinjiang sets global pace in desert containment
1 week, 2 days ago

Xinjiang sets global pace in desert containment

China Daily  

An event promoting desertification control efforts by the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is held during the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. As a key area for combating desertification, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is committed to exploring and implementing methods that will serve as an example nationwide and contribute to China's ecological …

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Fixing the sands
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Fixing the sands

China Daily  

After reclaiming farmland in Fengzhuang town of Pengyang county in Ningxia Hui autonomous region, the once barren mountains are transformed into a beautiful scene of green slopes. YANG JUHUI/FOR CHINA DAILY China, one of the countries with the severest desertification, has made significant progress in curbing the expansion of deserts after decades of relentless efforts, taking the lead globally to …

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China is turning its largest desert into a forest: Here's how
3 weeks, 6 days ago

China is turning its largest desert into a forest: Here's how

India Today  

China has achieved a significant milestone in its battle against desertification by completing a 3,046 km sand-blocking green belt around the Taklimakan Desert. This achievement, finalised on Thursday morning, is part of the world’s largest afforestation initiative aimed at combating desertification across northwest, north, and northeast China. China finished encircling the country's largest desert, the #TaklimakanDesert, with a sand-blocking green …

China Forest Desert
Fixing the sands
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Fixing the sands

China Daily  

After reclaiming farmland in Fengzhuang town of Pengyang county in Ningxia Hui autonomous region, the once barren mountains are transformed into a beautiful scene of green slopes. YANG JUHUI/FOR CHINA DAILY China, one of the countries with the severest desertification, has made significant progress in curbing the expansion of deserts after decades of relentless efforts, taking the lead globally to …

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Desertification battle powers ecosystem revamp
6 months ago

Desertification battle powers ecosystem revamp

China Daily  

Workers in Horqin district build grass grids for sand control in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, June 17. Wang's unit, State Grid Tongliao Power Supply Co, has developed a new model of coexistence between the sandy grid and economic necessity, letting its staff members engage in a campaign they call the "Hundred-Herb Bag Initiative" and plant fire-resistant green vegetation …

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Inner Mongolia ramping up green efforts
7 months, 1 week ago

Inner Mongolia ramping up green efforts

China Daily  

Workers install photovoltaic panels as part of a desertification control project in the Kubuqi Desert in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region in July 2023. Sun Shaocheng, the region's Party secretary, said that innovation is key to the success of the region's broad green development initiatives, as Inner Mongolia aims to treat nearly 800,000 hectares of desert by 2030 using …

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Desertification area transformed into green corridor, improves airport operations
1 year ago

Desertification area transformed into green corridor, improves airport operations

China Daily  

Penba, a Tibetan man from the Dranang county of the Xizang autonomous region, has been planting trees in the desertification area in his hometown over the last three decades. The area of this green corridor by the Yarlung Zangbo River is 30,000 hectares. This green corridor is still extending, guarding the critical area of integrated economic development in the southern …

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Desertification area transformed into green corridor, improves airport operations
1 year ago

Desertification area transformed into green corridor, improves airport operations

China Daily  

Penba, a Tibetan man from the Dranang county of the Xizang autonomous region, has been planting trees in the desertification area in his hometown over the last three decades. The area of this green corridor by the Yarlung Zangbo River is 30,000 hectares. This green corridor is still extending, guarding the critical area of integrated economic development in the southern …

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From Taklimakan to Sahara, China, Africa in concert to combat drought, desertification
1 year, 6 months ago

From Taklimakan to Sahara, China, Africa in concert to combat drought, desertification

China Daily  

A Chinese expert elaborates the installing process of an updated sand-fixing grid to participants attending a desertification control training workshop at a sand prevention demonstration area in Taklimakan Desert, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, June 12, 2023. Dahiru said the project is a good start in building a "green wall" in Kano and other Nigerian states bordering the Sahara …

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Xi calls for further tackling desertification
1 year, 6 months ago

Xi calls for further tackling desertification

China Daily  

President Xi Jinping has highlighted the significance of strengthening desertification control and prevention to develop an even stronger green shield in the nation's northern regions and secure greater outcomes in building a beautiful China. Speaking during a meeting with officials on Tuesday in Bayannuur in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party …

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Security concerns, lack of support stall Africa’s Green Wall
2 years, 7 months ago

Security concerns, lack of support stall Africa’s Green Wall

Associated Press  

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — A series of complex challenges, including a lack of funding and political will as well as rising insecurity linked to extremist groups al-Qaida and the Islamic State in Burkina Faso, are obstructing progress on Africa’s Great Green Wall, according to experts involved in the initiative. Just 4 million hectares of land has been afforested since work …

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Security concerns, lack of support stall Africa's Green Wall
2 years, 7 months ago

Security concerns, lack of support stall Africa's Green Wall

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A series of complex challenges, …

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How Dubai is pushing back its encroaching deserts
2 years, 11 months ago

How Dubai is pushing back its encroaching deserts

BBC  

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 …

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