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Deserts have been growing though, particularly the Sahara due to human activities like farming and grazing animals. So perhaps there’s opportunities to reduce d

Deserts have been growing though, particularly the Sahara due to human activities like farming and grazing animals. So perhaps there’s opportunities to reduce deserification by combining solar and agriculture, and also provide power to poor regions. According to this link there is promising benefits: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/09/combining-solar-farming-benefits-both/ https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/09/combining-solar-farming...

californical 5y ago
The California desert is so different though - there is so much life everywhere. Spending nights camping out there, you just see so much. There are these really cute rat-looking things that eat bark and make a crazy scratching sound while you’re trying to sleep. There’s a huge variety of birds, some of which are brutal — they’ll pick up those rats and throw them at a cactus to impale them so they can be eaten more easily. Then there’s mice, ants, coyotes (woke up in the middle of the night to a big pack running by), tons of crazy plants. There’s even some spots with water & real oasis feeling - palm trees, frogs, insects, and running water - right in between some cliffs, tucked away, with no people around as far as you can see. I always thought the desert was just mostly sand and occasional cactus, but have been proven SO wrong after spending lots of time there.