From: here@is.invalid   
      
   On 12 Jul 2024 21:48:16 GMT, Retrograde    
   wrote:   
      
   >A million trees give central Dubai a 40-mile Green Spine   
      
      
   China's Great Green Wall   
      
   January 2015   
      
   Northern China has a long history of being dry. The Himalayas which   
   run through the mid-west of the country create a rain shadow over the   
   country's northern border with Mongolia, which prevents rainfall   
   reaching the region and annual precipitation figures of 100 to 250mm   
   compared to around 1500mm for mainland China. The result is the   
   Taklamakan and Gobi deserts which have a combined size of over 1.6   
   million km2.   
      
   The 'wall' is actually strips and patches of trees planted in vast   
   swathes across the north of China. These trees act as wind breaks to   
   the dust storms that frequently blow across the area from the Gobi and   
   Taklamakan deserts; storms that break up soil and reduce the area's   
   farming capacity.   
      
   https://www.rgs.org/schools/resources-for-schools/chinas-great-green-wall   
      
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