Sahara Desert going green (big rains)

Sahara turns green: Should we celebrate or worry? | Vantage with Palki Sharma

(Firstpost) Sept. 26, 2024: NASA’s [low orbit 20 to 50 miles up] satellite images show the Sahara Desert turning green due to an unusual shift in [intentional modification of] the weather. This is the largest hot desert in the world, but it is going green amid climate change after North Africa received a year's worth of rainfall in a few days. Why is this happening? Is a green Sahara a cause for celebration or concern? #vantageonfirstpost #palkisharma #firstpost

Earth, Wind, and Water: Flooding Our Forest

Mossy Earth, Aug. 30, 2023; Kelly Ani, Seven, Ananda (DBM) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

One year ago we flooded a forest, and the results are insane

(Mossy Earth) Last year we flooded a forest, and the results have been amazing. This year we really hoped it would flood again. This is what happened.

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⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:04 Early spring
• 5:03 April floods
• 9:30 May floods
• 12:56 Summer floods

📸 Old photo credit: V. Andráš and the man in the picture is Professor RNDr Vladimír Kováč, CSc. 🔎

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Over recent decades, large swathes of [Eastern European] Slovakia’s wetlands have been lost. They have been drained to make way for agriculture as a result of the construction of dams for hydroelectric power, as well as for timber production. Wetlands are an integral part of the Danube River floodplain landscape in Slovakia. And draining them to plant trees has detrimental impacts on the environment. Wetlands store large amounts of carbon and are home to a diversity of plant and animal species (flora and fauna) that are specially adapted to wet conditions. One of these species is the nationally endangered, endemic Pannonian root vole, which has declined drastically in Slovakia in response to disappearing wetlands. This project will revert the forest into a wetland by digging 650 meters of ditches. This will kickstart a “flood” of change and bring back a healthy functioning, sustainable, and wilder ecosystem. Read all about this work here: mossy.earth/projects/restoring...