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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (osma@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 16:21:35 JST Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦

Chinese forestation effort in Taklamakan Desert is bearing results: a human created carbon sink around the edges of the desert. It has taken 66 billion planted trees so far.
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
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  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.

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