To attain an accurate master of the land desertification and ... in an attempt to inform the public of the current status of desertification and sandification in China, the achievements made ...

Chinese officials have issued a final warning as the Gobi Desert continues its alarming advance, threatening Beijing and ...

More than one quarter of China is either covered by desert or is land that is suffering desertification ... adding that at current rates it would take 300 years to reclaim land which has recently ...

China's desertification has been "primarily caused by human activities, such as overgrazing, excessive logging and excavation, overexploitation, excessive land reclamation, and the misuse of water ...

has allowed saplings and trees to regenerate the land. Lu and his team's efforts not only highlight significant advancements in China’s desertification control, but also reflect a deeper ...

but the process will take 300 years at the current rate of reversing desertification by 1 700km² annually, it said. Some of the worst land erosion in the world occurs in the basin of the Yellow River, ...