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China tames ‘sea of death’ desert’s shifting sand with giant solar wall, trees
The Taklamakan Desert in China is now surrounded by a 1900-mile green belt to prevent sandstorms and protect local ...
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These sand dunes in Iran look like they're straight out of a cartoon — but they're real and insanely dangerous
In the heart of Dasht-e Kavir, a large desert in Iran ... no water — just the crazy hills of insanely soft sand. Knowledge of the dunes has come from only the handful of researchers that ...
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The innovation turning desert sand into farmland
Norwegian scientist Kristian Morten Olesen has patented a process to mix nano-particles of clay with water and bind them to sand particles to condition desert soil - he has been working on Liquid ...
Simon Fraser University3y
The Desertification in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Sand dunes are formed in the Sahara Desert in the image above. In physical geography, the dunes are sand hills built by an accumulation of sand through wind and water transportation. The process is ...