Re: planting trees in Dubai

On 12 Jul 2024 21:48:16 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
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