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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    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.