Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.
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… Based on the results of this study, the Taklamakan Desert, although only around its rim, represents the FIRST successful model demonstrating the possibility of transforming a desert into a carbon sink," Yung said.
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And here I thought they had been doing that around the world.
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And here I thought they had been doing that around the world.
We’re much better at turning carbon sinks into deserts.