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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The Sahara winds whip up fine desert dust into the upper atmosphere, it floats on the jet stream to the Amazon and fertilizes it with nutrients the rainforest would otherwise deplete.

I posit turning Lake Eyre into a sea would have similar effects.