September 15, 2022 at 8:04 pm
How China Tried to Turn the Desert Green (and Why it Went Wrong)
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A plan to plant a wall of more than 66 billion trees 4,500 kilometers long to block desert expansion, shield against sand storms, and offset carbon emissions sounds great. So why did it fail?