Zhangjiajie Gritstone-peak Forest, China's best preserved cluster of volcanoes and geological features in Hunan Province, in 2001 became among the first nationally designated geological parks.

China's largest desert is now encircled by thousands of trees. The forest currently stretches over about 2,000 miles around the Taklamakan desert in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.

XINING -- Qinghai Lake, China's largest inland saltwater lake, has seen rising water level and expanded water area for 20 consecutive years, posing ecological and other challenges, Chinese ...