China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a ...

Joshua trees are flowering in the Calif. desert. That’s bad news.

Joshua trees typically bloom in February and April, according to Jeremy Yoder, an associate professor of biology at ...
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Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers CO2

By precise numbers, it has reduced the average carbon content in the desert air from 416 parts per million to 413 ppm.
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Mass tree planting in China turns one of the world’s driest deserts into a green carbon sink

Once one of the driest deserts in the world, Taklamakan is now a lush, fertile landscape animated with billions of trees.

Desert or carbon sink? 66 billion trees transform China's Taklamakan into the world's first desert carbon sink

China's ambitious "Great Green Wall" project has transformed the arid edges of the Taklamakan Desert into a significant ...
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China Planted So Many Trees Around the Taklamakan Desert It Turned It Into a Carbon Sink

The Taklamakan Desert has a name that translates, roughly and ominously, to “The Place of No Return.” For centuries, this 130,000-square-mile expanse in western China was exactly that — a furnace of ...