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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.

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[-] HumanDent@lemmy.zip 3 points 22 hours ago

Haha, yea. I also left Reddit when the API change happened.

I thought I was breaking the Voyager app with the number of accounts and communities I was blocking on my original account, so I made this new one. I needed to force close the app whenever I tried viewing the whole blocked list...

[-] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Currently i only block about 125 users and out of these 11 have been banned ... at one point, maybe a year ago, i may have blocked 500 ... never used an application though.
Too much an intensive use (of social madium) may lead to stress and tendency to downVote, i went through that.

[-] HumanDent@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I rarely down vote, but apparently I've blocked 7148 users/communities/instances on my first account.

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