Greening the Desert

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They laughed and said it couldn't be done.

Release date : 2007-02-03

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Durasi : 6 Min.

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Permaculture expert Geoff Lawton describes how he and a team of volunteers grew an oasis in arid, salty lowland, despite extremely high temperatures and minimal irrigation. The site is the lowest dryland expanse on Earth: a plain in Jordan, two kilometres northeast of the Dead Sea, and 400 metres below sea level.