Thanks to Sascha Pare and LiveScience Online for the Headline.
Basically the Chinese have ecologically engineered a forest around a desert that was increasingly getting drier and windswept and increasing the area of desertfication in the direction of human habitation.
In 1978 the plan to grow trees around the margins of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts in order to stop s desertification in it’s tracks and it seems to be working. The desert is being transformed into a carbon sink by planting (and looking after )more than 66 billion trees around it’s edges and the plan is to continue this process until 2050.There is some evidence it is working , however, there is concern that it has not stopped the famous sand storms in the area. Still it is I think it is a positive ecological story.
AI generated image of trees being grown at the edge of a dessert.
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