GOOD NEWS! China’s efforts to create a ring of trees that brings new life to barren desert sees new success in lowering CO2 levels! For decades, China has planted billions of trees in one of the world’s most hostile deserts, calling it the “Green Great Wall.” This wall contains 66 billion trees, which have greatly increased the average annual rainfall. This in result has produced more natural growth of foliage and greater degrees of sequestration (CO2 storage). This effort has reduced the average carbon content in that desert from 416 parts per million to 413 parts per million. “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,” said Yuk Yung, professor of planetary science at Caltech.
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