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.

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.

  • Insekticus@aussie.zoneEnglish
    66·
    10 hours ago

    And while they’re at it, make sure that the people who completed such a feat were adequately paid for their time and given the rights and good working conditions.

    What?.. it was indentured minorities? Ah yeah, I figured.

    Probably fertilized the soil with the blood of the Uyghurs they’ve got in concentration camps.

    • Dearth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      310·
      9 hours ago

      I have yet to find any verifiable evidence of uyghur concentration camps. Ive looked for years and it all comes down to 1 random guy with deep cia ties.

      • Insekticus@aussie.zoneEnglish
        62·
        9 hours ago

        Yeah I watched videos of inside the re-education camps and the conditions the people were languishing in in their prison cells.

        China has an absolutely horrendous track record of human rights, even for their own citizens as they consider them an expendable resource in their country-sized factory

        I dont know you from a bar of soap, so im just going to assume you’re a chinese plant designed to spread disinformation on the topic because EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. This topic comes out, all the chinese apologists come out of the woodwork to say it’s all fake, but everytime a chinese national tries to tell the world about the organ harvesting, they’re immediately shot down by a horde of misinformers like they’re waiting for the word “uyghur” or “Xin Jiang” come up.

        • AreaSIX @lemmy.zipEnglish
          36·
          7 hours ago

          You yourself seem to have a weird hard-on for bringing up Uighurs arbitrarily when it has zero to do with the subject of the post. Perhaps then you shouldn’t throw stones in your glass house and accuse others of waiting to arbitrarily pounce on the word “Xin Jiang”, when you obviously do the same thing for the word “China”.

          Argue your point instead of automatically assuming everyone who doesn’t agree with you is a Chinese plant. That just makes you look whiny and weak, and brings no one around to your standpoint.

          • Insekticus@aussie.zoneEnglish
            11·
            5 hours ago

            It’s always deflection with your type, sn’t it…

            Instead of owning up to the crimes against humanity and standing with your fellow man, it’s “go look in your own backyard! !!! Don’t watch what we’re doing to minorities!!!” Complemented with minsofrmation and disinformation campaigns.

            And yes, I have a hard-on for holding countries to account for their human rights abuses, but go off queen, tell me how I look weak and whiny while you simp for billionaires who’ll throw you in the gulag before they get held accountable.