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.

  • Insekticus@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Yeah, I’m not wasting my time arguing with or trying to enlighten someone who is defending a fascist authoritarian regime when it’s been shown China just pays trolls and manages bot farms to control the narrative and their image

    After Tiannamen Square, Hong Kong, Taiwan, all the academic dishonesty, planting spies in global academic institutions, organ harvesting in Xin Jiang, and IP theft China does, there is 0% chance I’ll believe China’s opinion on anything. They had absolutely no credibility to begin with.

    So you can sit there continuing to scream into the void at me because I really don’t give a fuck what a fascist defender has to say.

    P.s., my favorite part was when you disliked my ad hominems so much, you made your own thinking it would sway anyone to your side, like we were starting off with some healthy debate.

    Not debating, and literally in one paragraph your argument fell apart into the same level of ad hominems - you must have been on the debate team in school, hey.