China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink (www.livescience.com)

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

only problem is it native species to the desert, or an exported potentially invasive species to the desert.

[-] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 points 8 hours ago

My understanding is that the Gobi Desert has historically been expanding due to desertification of the surrounding grasslands, and the project to plant trees in this area was to halt or reverse this process. In other words, the ecological destruction was already occurring.

But double check me.

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