#saxaul — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #saxaul, aggregated by home.social.
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(26/27) ... dévastatrice détruit reste d' #agriculture et tue le bétail survivant de la #politique URSS -> Ouzbékistan plante du #saxaul halophyte endémique dans lit asséché du lac pour fixer le sol et lutter contre les tempêtes de poussière et de sel #solutions mais #science la mer d'Aral ne pourra jamais être «sauvée» ni retrouver son état antérieur.
#year2018 #anthropocene #climat #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
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Uzbekistan plants a #forest where a sea once lay https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/uzbekistan-plants-a-forest-where-a-sea-once-lay/
"The #Aral Sea, once the lifeblood of peoples in #Uzbekistan and #Kazakhstan, is parched, shrouded in a layer of toxic salt and dust... both countries are working with locals to plant a new forest of drought-resistant #plants (#saxaul, #saltwort, #ephedra, #tamarisk) in the dried-out lakebed... a single saxaul shrub that’s 7 to 10 years old can stop 2-4 metric tons of moving sand"