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.
There’s people in China that put sticks in the ground to make it look like vegetation, and they even paint vegetation green to make it look more healthy. Looking at low quality satellite pictures like Google Maps is unreliable.
Yo at some point that very idea seems more efforts than planting actual trees… few months ago a French YouTuber (Tev) went deeeeeeeep into one of those Chinese desert and filmed greenery in the middle of it. Like a whole garden thingy built just for the lols or something.
Chinese are crafty and industrious fuckers, once they set to something they generally make it happen. Sometimes it’s swallows sometimes it’s trees I guess…
Source? That sounds unbelievable honestly
They stick hay in the sand to create wind breaks that trap moisture and seeds to stop the expansion of the desert. Hundreds of acres with 1 meter grids of hay pressed into the dunes. Ive never seen anyone painting anything but i don’t doubt some anti- communist propagandist is saying they are
You can make fun of it, but when party officials come to see, you bet your ass there will be local politicians forcing people to do so. They did the same in Poland in those times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvc7VymDa4c