Desert-Encircling Forests Turn Taklamakan into Carbon Sink, NASA-Caltech Reveal
TL;DR
China’s Green Great Wall around the Taklamakan Desert has grown about 66 billion trees since 1978, transforming barren land into a carbon sink and modestly lowering regional CO2 as NASA-Caltech satellite data show atmospheric carbon dropping from 416 to 413 ppm; the effort demonstrates the potential of large-scale tree planting to reclaim desert landscapes, though global CO2 remains high and land available for forests is limited.
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- Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers CO2 Good News Network
- China Has Planted So Many Trees That It's Largest Desert Now Absorbs More Carbon Dioxide Than It Pumps Out IFLScience
- China’s effort to halt the Gobi Desert came with a hidden cost Earth.com
- China Planted So Many Trees Around the Taklamakan Desert It Turned It Into a Carbon Sink ZME Science
- Planting trees is costing China dearly: now it faces a major problem Diario AS
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