Desert turns forest, Viking giant, and dream inception: this week's science headlines
TL;DR
This week’s science roundup covers China’s Great Green Wall turning the Taklamakan Desert into a carbon sink and related emissions trends, a Viking Age mass grave near Cambridge that includes the skeleton of a towering man who may have undergone trepanation, a study showing that dreams can be subtly seeded to boost problem-solving, and a nature-made Valentine’s gift idea tied to a pink salt lake in Argentina, along with other climate, archaeology and space-related science news.
- Science news this week: China turns a desert into a carbon sink, a Viking Age grave holds a giant who had brain surgery, real-life inception, and a last-minute Valentine's gift idea from nature Live Science
- China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink Live Science
- China grows fruit and vegetables in Inner Mongolia desert zone FreshPlaza
- China goes green: The 'magic wand' of ecological transformation news.cgtn.com
- 66bn trees in 48 years: China turns desert larger than Thar into a carbon sink WION
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