• TeoTwawki
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    2 months ago

    the sahara turning fully green could actually be another kind of disaster - parts of the food chain rely on dust from the sahara blowing over the atlantic to provide essential nutrient/minerals for smaller organisms that slightly less small organism feed on.

    https://www.popsci.com/environment/sahara-dust-atlantic/

    migrating dust clouds originating in the Sahara Desert are crucial to fostering life in the Atlantic Ocean as far away as the Amazonian basin

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      2 months ago

      It’s okay, the Amazon will die off from other things first. (/s but only on it being okay)

      As far as the human food chain goes, a single round of fertiliser will easily match millennia of windblown desert dust.