EditorialChinese astronauts wave to a crowd before boarding the Shenzhou 15 spacecraft at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, deep in the Gobi Desert of China, on their way to the country?s Tiangong space station, Nov. 29, 2022. (You Li/The New York Times)
EditorialBattogtokh Uurtsaikh drives coal from a mine in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia to the Chinese border, Oct. 9, 2019. (Gilles Sabrié/The New York Times)