Comment on Why don't we pump seawater into deserts to revive them?

dumbcrumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Deserts are actually very important to the worlds ecosystem. The Amazon rainforest probably wouldnt exist without the Sahara. A lot of the Sahara’s sand is made up of dead plankton and these dead plankton are blown across the seas by strong winds and eventually land in the amazon. These plankton give the soil extra nutrients and are one of the main reasons why the south Americans are so lush with life.

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