Massive sand-removal operations are transforming the Taklamakan Desert, raising eyebrows about China's hidden agenda.

BEIJING, Jan. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the largest desert in China. At the same time, its fast-moving sand dunes make it also the most ...

Large dust storms in Tibet could be heating the region and influencing the development of the Indian monsoon, finds a new study. Although occasional dust plumes have been previously observed near the ...

FILE PHOTO: A man leads camels at the edge of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region BEIJING (Reuters) - China has finished a 46-year campaign to encircle its largest desert with ...

“What a wonderful place to stay this must have been,” wrote the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin during his second visit to the ruins of Loulan, on the eastern outskirts of China’s Taklamakan Desert in ...

NANJING, China, Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In November, China has successfully encircled the Taklamakan Desert, often called the "sea of death", the country's largest and the world's second-largest ...

BANGKOK — Silk Road travelers in ancient times cursed China’s largest desert as “Takla Makan,” an ominous Persian-Turkic expression that translates as, roughly, “Enter and you may never return.” ...

On January 23, a Sino-Japanese expedition set out on camelback and foot on an attempt to cross the Taklamakan Desert from west to east along the 39th parallel. As the crow flies, the trip is 846 ...

Nam Yuong-ho, a South Korean explorer, has successfully completed a solo-crossing of Central Asia's Taklamakan desert on foot. Nam departed from China's Hotan Prefecture on the desert's southern edge ...

As the sun began its long descent late one afternoon in the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang region of northeastern China, my travelling companions and I mounted a train of camels and wondered aloud ...