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To combat desertification, China has encircled Taklimakan Desert with a sand-blocking green belt
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The Sahara was probably originally made by humans over farming/grazing the land in the first thousand years of agriculture. Egyptians even had interesting records of large rivers going through the area.
Search Lake Megachad. Basically it's a tale of ancient overgrazing of a fragile ecosystem causing a giant dust bowl and major expansion of deserts, causing one of earths largest lakes to almost disappear
This sounds like one of those cool america facts memes like, "environmentalists have been trying to save this bird species for decades. Look up Operation Condor"
It's worth noting that this was during the African Humid Period where all of North Africa had more rainfall than usual, so the Sahara's desertification afterwards may have been a return to normal
Lake Gigachad would have survived