Levent KurnazMassive 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. 🌍🛰️
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 carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.