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China Tried to Block the Gobi Desert with Millions of Trees, Only to Turn a “Biological Void” Into Carbon-Sink Territory
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China Tried to Block the Gobi Desert with Millions of Trees, Only to Turn a “Biological Void” Into Carbon-Sink Territory
On November 28, 2024, crews on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert planted the last 100 meters of trees. Chinese state reporting said the final stretch completed a 3,046-kilometer green belt encircling the desert in Xinjiang, turning decades of incremental planting into a continuous perimeter. The barrier was never pitched as a climate experiment. It was built to slow dune movement near roads, farms, and settlements, and to blunt dust that…
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