Climate of Our Future

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BBC News has a story out of Mali in West Africa that describes how a women’s co-operative in the village of Kabara, south of Timbuktu, is using underground aquifers to plant eucalyptus trees. In this region where the annual rainfall is less than 400mm, reforestation is essential to return nutrients to the soil, and to prevent erosion by the harsh desert winds. Though some scientists are worried that the eucalyptus trees will drain large amounts of water out of the soil, Daouda Diarra from the World Food Program in Mali says th… keep reading