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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    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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