The Taklamakan Desert, often called the “sea of death,” covers 130,350 square miles (337,600 square kilometers), with 85% dominated by shifting sand dunes. Sandstorms from this desert have ...
China has successfully encircled the Taklamakan Desert, the country’s largest and the world’s second-largest shifting desert, with a 1,900-mile (3,050-kilometer) green belt of vegetation and ...