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The Sahara Desert Today Vs 8,000 Years Ago (discuss.online)

submitted 6 days ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Chinese solar farms in their deserts suddenly went green due to the constant shade protecting rain water, plus the water from the automated cleaning spray systems. It grew grass, so they put goats there to keep it mowed for free.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Careful, goats is how chunks of africa got like that.