For years, the gradual expansion of the Gobi Desert has been a threat. Environmentalists feared that the desert would encompass valuable assets of nature—livestock, wetlands, and more. To prevent the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Nearly half a century ago, China had an audacious ...

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid. The Mengxi Blue Ocean Photovoltaic Power Station, located in ...