In 2024, China completed a 46-year, 3,050 km project to surround the entire Taklamakan Desert, the second-largest shifting-sand desert known as the "Sea of Death", with a "Green Belt" to curb desertification and sandstorms
TED Talks
Natalie Merchant: Singing old poems to life
Natalie Merchant sings from her new album, "Leave Your Sleep." Lyrics from near-forgotten 19th-century poetry pair with her unmistakable voice for a performance that brought the TED audience to its feet.
In 1980, 19 year old identical triplets separated as infants and adopted into different families, unexpectedly reunited when two of them landed at the same college and were mistaken for each other
