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Enormous government project nearly 50 years in the making encircles desert with trees: 'The Great Green Wall'
In November, workers in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang completed a roughly 2,000-mile "green belt" around the Taklimakan Desert ... This broader project that launched in 1978 ...
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Deserts, explained
Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats ... and conservationists are working to ensure solar energy projects like these can coexist with wildlife.