China is slowly greening its deserts by building a 3,000 km green belt around the desert

Good news!

Extra CO2 in the atmosphere certainly helps! Therefore, China is also building hundreds of coal fired power plants! Caution: satire!

"China’s arid northwest is becoming slightly less so. Late last month, workers completed a 2,000-mile ring of trees around China’s Taklamakan Desert, the latest milestone in a 46-year effort to control desertification. The initiative appears to be making incremental progress: Reuters reports that 26.8 percent of China’s land is currently desert, down from 27.2 percent ten years ago."

Weekly Progress Roundup - by Malcolm Cochran - Doomslayer

China completes 3,000-km green belt around its biggest desert, state media says