One of the driest regions on earth is shifting green, as an influx of heavy rainfall ... of plant life popping up all over ...

Efforts to enclose the desert with trees began in 1978 with the launch of China's "Three-North Shelterbelt" project, colloquially known as the Great Green Wall. More than 30 million hectares ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... This boundary is called the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The ITCZ "shifts north of the equator in the Northern Hemisphere's summer months ...

The Taklimakan Desert, known as the "Sea of Death," has been completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt stretching 3,046 kilometers, said local authorities in Northwest China's Xinjiang ...