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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-03T11:45:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "One of the world's driest places—the massive Taklamakan Desert in China—is ever so slowly becoming less of a desert. New research finds that decades of tree- and shrub-planting along the edges of the 130,000 square-mile desert is turning the area into a carbon sink, meaning it absorbs...",
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