Construction Engineers from China spent more than 580 days drilling in the Taklamakan Desert, and the project reached a depth of 10,910 meters, crossed 12 geological layers, reached rocks more than 500 million years old, and faced temperatures and pressures so extreme that the last 910 meters took almost a year to complete. Valdemar Medeiros 23/04/2026 at 21:20
Interesting facts Seen from space, a colossal ‘Y’ cuts through the largest desert in China, blending a jade-filled river, red and white mountains, and revealing the absurd scale of the transformation of the Taklamakan surrounded by a green wall with billions of trees. Ana Alice 26/03/2026 at 13:19
Sustainability China Planted 66 Billion Trees in the Taklamakan Desert and Now the Region Absorbs More CO₂ Than It Emits, Study Finds from PNAS Jefferson Augusto 20/02/2026 at 13:00
Sustainability China Transforms One of the World’s Driest Deserts Into a Aquaculture Hub and Now Produces Nearly 200,000 Tons of Fish Where There Was Once Only Sand Jefferson Augusto 11/02/2026 at 16:11
Interesting facts New ‘Great Wall of China’ Is 3,046 Km Long, Covers 30 Million Hectares, and Uses Straw, Solar Panels, and Photovoltaic Pumps to Halt Desert; Billion-Dollar Project Aims to Stop the “Yellow Dragon” by 2050 Alisson Ficher 31/01/2026 at 20:15
Science and Technology China Removes Billions of Tons of Sand from Desert and Creates Forest Using Straw, Salt Melted at 540°C, and Solar Panels That Irrigate 200,000 Trees in One of the Most Inhospitable Places on Earth Alisson Ficher 11/01/2026 at 00:20
Science and Technology How China Is Transforming Its Largest Desert Into New Sources Of Life With A 3,046 Km Green Belt, Solar Plants That Fix Sand, And The Cultivation Of Rare “Desert Ginseng” As New Wealth Alisson Ficher 08/01/2026 at 15:20
Science and Technology With 3,000 Kilometers of Forests, China Transforms the Taklamakan Desert Into an Environmental Landmark and Advances in the World’s Largest Reforestation Project! Débora Araújo 23/12/2024 at 10:43
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