Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/58909207

Mass tree planting in China is turning one of the world’s largest and driest deserts into a carbon sink, meaning it absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits, new research reveals.

“We found, for the first time, that human-led intervention can effectively enhance carbon sequestration in even the most extreme arid landscapes, demonstrating the potential to transform a desert into a carbon sink and halt desertification,” study co-author Yuk Yung, a professor of planetary science at Caltech and a senior research scientist in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Live Science in an email.

  • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Nice observation : at least 10k comments should back these 3k+ posts, allas, only about 50 (so 0.05k) comments there … a bit concerning i say.

      • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        you wrote :
        " … the main issue is that Lemmy is a fraction of the size of Reddit …"
        let me guess that you are feed up with censorship at Reddit … i left it about 3 years (4?) ago … after they blocked access through “api” so that Teddit was blocked.

          • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Currently i only block about 125 users and out of these 11 have been banned … at one point, maybe a year ago, i may have blocked 500 … never used an application though.
            Too much an intensive use (of social madium) may lead to stress and tendency to downVote, i went through that.