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#tamarisk — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tamarisk, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Uzbekistan plants a #forest where a sea once lay news.mongabay.com/2024/05/uzbe

    "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"