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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    14 hours ago

    Lol, I was gonna say this account has made 3.4k posts in 7 months. It’s just an unlabeled bot to throw on the pile of blocked accounts.

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      11 hours ago

      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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        11 hours ago

        My rule of thumb is if a user has more than one post a day on average, I block them. At least on my other account I did that.

        I don’t think regular people post that frequently. If they do, it’s likely just manual irritating spam.

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          10 hours ago

          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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            10 hours ago

            Haha, yea. I also left Reddit when the API change happened.

            I thought I was breaking the Voyager app with the number of accounts and communities I was blocking on my original account, so I made this new one. I needed to force close the app whenever I tried viewing the whole blocked list…

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              9 hours ago

              Currently i only block about 125 users and out of these 11 have been banned … at one point, maybe a year ago, i may have blocked 500 … never used an application though.
              Too much an intensive use (of social madium) may lead to stress and tendency to downVote, i went through that.

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                3 hours ago

                I rarely down vote, but apparently I’ve blocked 7148 users/communities/instances on my first account.