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A comment on Desertification in Romania (2020).

Re:Desertification in Romania (2020) by Gravityloss on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:51AM (#27483156)
100000 hectares is 1000 square kilometers or 30 x 30 km. Not a geographically big area yet.
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Re:Desertification in Romania (2020) by orbital-decay on Saturday June 12, 2021 @06:24AM (#27483364)
Sure - but it's a bit like seeing a desert in Maine or Quebec. Until Middle Ages, most of Europe used to be one huge forest.
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Re:Desertification in Romania (2020) by oblio on Saturday June 12, 2021 @06:19AM (#27483331)
Yes, but there was nothing like it before.

The local climate is temperate.

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