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.
While I hear ya, it seems to be a proper article from a proper outlet written by someone reputable, albeit based on a study by a bunch of chinese researchers- not that there is anything inherently suspicious about that.
I also got the “feel-good China slop” reaction at first but I don’t know, seems legit.