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NATIVE DUNE VEGETATION
California lost 60% of its coastal dunes since 1850; now a 30-acre restoration project in Santa Monica is fighting sea-level riseSanta Monica Beach Dunes Restoration Project is designed to restore a portion of this historic ecosystem. The Santa Monica Bay National Est...- How leftover wheat straw stopped China’s shifting desert sands and helped bring vegetation backA simple straw checkerboard system developed at Shapotou in China’s Tengger Desert helped protect the Baotou-Lanzhou railway from shifting ...
- In 2021, Alabama started turning discarded Christmas trees into sand dunes: How old festive trees are now helping protect Gulf Coast beachesChristmas trees that were once the focal point of holiday celebrations are now playing a vital role in rebuilding sand dunes along Alabama'...
- South Africa, in the mid-1800s, planted millions of Australian acacias as a dune fix; 180 years later, that decision is costing the country its rivers and ecosystemA 19th-century solution to coastal erosion in South Africa, planting Australian Acacia trees, has become a major environmental crisis. Thes...
- China planted millions of trees around the Taklamakan Desert, and turned it into a carbon sinkChina's ambitious tree-planting program has transformed the Taklamakan Desert, once known as "The Place of No Return," into a functioning c...
- Travel Diaries: 36 Hours on Martha's Vineyard, MassachusettsDespite the stereotypes, the Vineyard's many cultures - African American, Brazilian, Jamaican and islanders that go back dozens of generati...
- Bleak Beauty: Route 50, the loneliest road in America, a black ribbon in a desolate landscapeOn either side of the road, the landscape was flat, bare and desolate with scattered clumps of greenery and an occasional tree, but bereft ...
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