Once dominated by sand and barren land, Xayar county in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has become home to ...

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In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of ...

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing.