Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Desertification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Desertification</span></a> was supposed to be the 'greatest environmental challenge of our time.' Experts now worried about <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/greening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greening</span></a>?<br>“Greening is happening in most of the drylands globally, despite increasing aridity,” says Jason Evans, a water-cycle researcher at the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> Change Research Centre<br>What is going on? The reason is the 50% rise in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/carbondioxide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbondioxide</span></a> in the atmosphere. Increased <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/C02" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C02</span></a> is not just driving <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a>, but also fast-tracking <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/photosynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photosynthesis</span></a> in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a><br><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2024/08/desertification-was-supposed-to-be-the-greatest-environmental-challenge-of-our-time-why-are-experts-now-worried-about-greening/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thebulletin.org/2024/08/desert</span><span class="invisible">ification-was-supposed-to-be-the-greatest-environmental-challenge-of-our-time-why-are-experts-now-worried-about-greening/</span></a></p>