China's largest desert fully enclosed by green barrier
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 Uygur Autonomous Region, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Satellite remote sensing images show that this is the world's longest green ecological barrier surrounding a desert, the Xinjiang […]