Natural History Wanderings

The Good News Network reported

China’s multi-decade long, successful effort to plant a ring of trees around one of the world’s most hostile deserts has sprouted an unexpected benefit to humanity.

Along with protecting the nation’s grasslands and agriculture from the spreading sands of the dismal Taklamakan Desert, the giant ring of trees has turned previous unproductive land into a carbon sink that draws CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Read more https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/chinas-tree-planting-turned-a-barren-desert-into-a-carbon-sink-to-help-lower-atmospheric-co2/Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers CO2