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.

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[–] 101 points 9 months ago (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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    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.

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    First time i hear of this great news and happy for once to hear a little bit about propaganda that is not from USA and pro environment.

    Now : Tiananmen Square massacre has been an atrocious tragedy and China's help in ruSSia invasion of Ukraine is horrible.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    While I applaud any government for attempting to better the environment, I really wish this project was done with more forethought.

    Unfortunately they have done this forestation primarily with fast growing poplar and willow trees, making a vast monoculture that wont likely last in such a harsh climate for more than a decade.

    Without the natural biodiversity that supports a living Forrest ecology, it only takes one disease or pest to wipe all that effort. In the end it might do more harm than good when considering the amount of ground water something like this will take out of the water cycle.

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