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China’s Great Green Wall turns Taklamakan desert into a growing carbon sink

The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News [Unofficial] March 11, 2026
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, the Taklamakan Desert was described in stark terms: a “biological void,” a vast expanse of shifting sand where little could survive. Slightly larger than the state of Montana and ringed by mountains that block most incoming moisture, it remains one of the largest and driest deserts on […] The post China’s Great Green Wall turns Taklamakan desert into a growing carbon sink first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.

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