deserto de Taklamakan

Science and Technology

While the world fears the advance of deserts, China is creating a “wall” of thousands of kilometers with dry plant remains buried in the sand to prevent dunes from engulfing highways in one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet.

Noel Budeguer 18/06/2026 at 10:35

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