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Environment
China turns desert twice the size of Shanghai, haunting with 60m high sand dunes into green oasis
In just over 30 years, the Chinese have greened more than 3,200 square kilometers of this desert.
Videos
Video: Watch workers 'plant' hay to protect a road in the middle of China's largest desert
These workers are placing hay fences along a road under construction in the Taklamakan, the largest desert in China.
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US Desert Lake Contains Buffalo Fish Over 100 Years Old
Researchers found that many individuals of three species of buffalo fish survived from 1918 to the present, most likely due to environmental isolation and evolutionary a…
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The period when the Mediterranean dried up into a salty desert
Tectonic plate movements and falling sea levels once separated the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, causing seawater to evaporate and form a vast saline basin.
Biology
'Shiver' at the plant that bleeds like humans!
Mother Nature gives people many wonderful things and also strange things.
Environment
Lakes appear across the Sahara desert after floods
Satellite images show lakes dotting the Sahara desert after a cyclone dumped a year's worth of rain on northern Africa in just days.
Scientific works
Saudi Arabia's Vertical City Construction Site
Saudi Arabian authorities have shared new images from the construction site revealing the progress of the country's planned Desert City.
New technology
China once again surprised the world when it let the humanoid robot Star1 race across the Gobi Desert.
A few months ago, China-based company Robot Era took the world by storm when it introduced the humanoid robot XBot-L, which can walk on the Great Wall of China.
Environment
Sahara Desert Suddenly Flooded by Thunderstorms, Lake Dry for 50 Years Now Filled with Water
When talking about the Sahara desert, everyone probably thinks of the intense heat and vast, dry sand. But surprisingly, many areas of this desert have been flooded afte…
Archeology
Mysterious stone circle may be world's oldest observatory
Researchers suspect the ancient stone circle of Nabta Playa was used to determine the summer solstice, signaling the coming rainy season.
1001 mystery
The mystery of the 'doomsday' cinema, built in the desert but not a single person has visited for more than 30 years
Located on the southern tip of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the abandoned cinema is known as the
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Desert dust is transformed into life-giving minerals
Desert dust is being converted into minerals by the Earth's atmosphere, and thereby nurturing life.
Archeology
3,600-year-old cheese 'reveals' secrets of ancient food preparation
During excavations of Bronze Age tombs in the Taklamakan Desert in northwestern China, scientists discovered ancient mummies buried with cheese.
Archeology
Strange 9,000-year-old rock art of swimmers in what is now the Sahara desert
Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was not a dry, sandy land but a lush green oasis.