China's Tree Planting Transforms Taklamakan Desert into Carbon Sink
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Summary
New research reveals that China's massive tree-planting efforts around the Taklamakan Desert have transformed the region from a 'biological void' into a carbon sink that absorbs more carbon dioxide than it emits. The desert, which is slightly larger than Montana, has seen extensive ecological engineering along its edges, creating vegetation that now functions as a significant carbon sink. This represents a major environmental achievement in one of the world's largest and driest deserts.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledMass 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.
The Taklamakan Desert (also spelled Taklimakan or Takla Makan) is slightly larger than Montana, stretching across about 130,000 square miles (337,000 square kilometers).
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.
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