GLOBAL GREENING: Scientists Find ‘Lost’ Forests The Size Of Seven Texases

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GLOBAL GREENING: Scientists Find ‘Lost’ Forests The Size Of Seven Texases

Posted By Michael Bastasch On 10:37 AM 05/17/2017 In | No Comments

Scientists looking at forest cover in some of the world’s driest places found something astounding — “lost” forests covering an area nearly seven times the size of Texas.

“We found new dryland forest on all inhabited continents, but mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, around the Mediterranean, central India, coastal Australia, western South America, northeastern Brazil, northern Colombia and Venezuela, and northern parts of the boreal forests in Canada and Russia,” biologists Andrew Lowe and Ben Sparrow wrote of their study, which had 28 other co-authors.
 

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[Oceander]

Oops

[thackney]

Size Of Seven Texases

That word looks so wrong.

seven times the size of Texas.

Far better choice of words.

[anubias]

Makes sense.  What do aquariasts pump into their aquariums to grow plants?  As much CO2 as the fish can survive. 

[geronl]

Okay, who could lose something seven times the size of Texas? That has to be a record.

[geronl]

That word looks so wrong.

it is wrong, someone get the Texas Rangers Grammar Division on the case!

[Taxcontrol]

There is one single project that would both lower the sea levels and turn dry desert land into productive (green) lands.  The Qattara depression is in northern Egypt.  Turning that depression into an extension of the Mediterranean sea via a wide shipping canal would flood a large part of the Sahara desert.  It would bring a massive amount of moisture to the region and would work to open up the heart of the African continent to shipping and trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression

The canal that would need to be dug would be about 1 km wide and 60 km long to a depth of about 30 meters below sea level.  A massive undertaking but I am of the opinion that it would provide substantial long term economic returns to Egypt.

[truth_seeker]

There is one single project that would both lower the sea levels and turn dry desert land into productive (green) lands.  The Qattara depression is in northern Egypt.  Turning that depression into an extension of the Mediterranean sea via a wide shipping canal would flood a large part of the Sahara desert.  It would bring a massive amount of moisture to the region and would work to open up the heart of the African continent to shipping and trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression

The canal that would need to be dug would be about 1 km wide and 60 km long to a depth of about 30 meters below sea level.  A massive undertaking but I am of the opinion that it would provide substantial long term economic returns to Egypt.

Salt water, I presume.

[Joe Wooten]

There is one single project that would both lower the sea levels and turn dry desert land into productive (green) lands.  The Qattara depression is in northern Egypt.  Turning that depression into an extension of the Mediterranean sea via a wide shipping canal would flood a large part of the Sahara desert.  It would bring a massive amount of moisture to the region and would work to open up the heart of the African continent to shipping and trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression

The canal that would need to be dug would be about 1 km wide and 60 km long to a depth of about 30 meters below sea level.  A massive undertaking but I am of the opinion that it would provide substantial long term economic returns to Egypt.

There have been proposals for this for over a century. It really would be a benefit only to Egypt and Libya, it would not extend a new trade route deep into Africa. There still would be hundreds of miles of desert between the Mediterranean coast and the African interior.