China set out to stop its deserts from swallowing farms and cities by planting trees on a scale the planet had never seen. After decades of work and tens of billions of saplings, scientists now say ...

China has been planting millions of trees to slow the advance of the Gobi Desert, but the vast new forests have also reduced ...

The sound of rush hour in Zhuhai on China's southern coast has been replaced by howling winds and sheets of rain. Branches from falling trees and what looked like pieces of metal from the edge of a ...

China’s massive tree-planting push has long been hailed as a climate win. But new research shows the country’s ambitious effort to slow land degradation, and fight climate change, has also reshaped ...

China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent ...

A new study involving researchers from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused ...