Massive news in carbon sequestration: The Taklamakan Desert's "Green Wall" is now a verified carbon sink. Satellite data shows a 1-2 ppm CO2 drop over the region during wet seasons. 66 billion trees later, a "biological void" is now helping the planet breathe. 🌍🛰️

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-planted-so-many-trees-around-the-taklamakan-desert-that-its-turned-this-biological-void-into-a-carbon-sink

#ClimateScience #Afforestation #CarbonSink

Tree planting had an overall minimal effect on soil fauna communities across multiple former ecosystem types at the global scale, but for a specific former ecosystem type (such as deserts), the impact on reforestation of former forested sites and former non-forested lands may vary.

#Afforestation | #Reforestation | #Abundance | #Biomass | #Diversity | #Meta_analysis

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf147

Planting Trees to Heal Old Wounds: Can a Desert Forest Save the Aral’s Last Residents?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/planting-trees-to-heal-old-wounds-can-a-desert-forest-save-the-arals-last-residents/

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Depth-dependent mechanisms underpinning #SoilOrganicCarbon accumulation following #Afforestation

#Lignin | #MicrobialNecromassCarbon | #KarstEcosystem | #SoilDepth | #SubtropicalRegion

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf166

🌍 This week in forest finance:
🇧🇷 $141B on Brazil’s restoration ledger

🌊 A cost tool for blue carbon investments

🌲 California’s $18B wildfire fund

💸 $250M for U.S. afforestation startup Chestnut Carbon
From pastures to coastlines, capital is moving.
#forestfinance #Brazil #BlueCarbon #California #wildfire #afforestation #carbonmarkets #NetZero

https://groundtruth.app/blue-carbon-tools-brazils-pitch-and-californias-push/

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Global effects of tree planting on soil fauna communities depend on former ecosystem types

#Afforestation | #Reforestation | #Abundance | #Biomass | #Diversity | #Meta_analysis

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf147