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.

  • HumanDent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months 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.

      • HumanDent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        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.