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.
Yeah, that’s great ‘news.’
Just two months ago, in December 2025, the same news has been published by the same outlet and written by the same author (see here).
Reuters new agency reported about that already in November 2024.
And this is by far not everything. The web is full with it. This same story has been appearing in the various outlets for several years now, mostly citing a ‘new’ study or ‘Chinese state media’ reports so that there is a reason to present it as ‘new.’
And it’s not the first time that OP is repeatedly posting the same ‘news’ over and again, just with a different framing, and obviously only to make China look good and to promote its propaganda.
Lol, I was gonna say this account has made 3.4k posts in 7 months. It’s just an unlabeled bot to throw on the pile of blocked accounts.
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.
My rule of thumb is if a user has more than one post a day on average, I block them. At least on my other account I did that.
I don’t think regular people post that frequently. If they do, it’s likely just manual irritating spam.
