{"id":115212,"date":"2026-02-19T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=115212"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:18:05","slug":"115212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=115212","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;d a thunk it? Plants LIKE CO\u00b2<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What a counterintuitive twist in the climate story.<\/p>\n<p>The Sahara Desert of all places has shrunk by about 8% since the 1980s thanks to rising CO\u2082 levels fueling a remarkable global green renaissance.<\/p>\n<p>Data from NASA\u2019s AVHRR and MODIS instruments show that 25% to 50% of Earth&#8217;s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0q4FOL2oqA\">pic.twitter.com\/0q4FOL2oqA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterDClack\/status\/2024402415689351232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;d a thunk it? Plants LIKE CO\u00b2 What a counterintuitive twist in the climate story. The Sahara Desert of all places has shrunk by about 8% since the 1980s thanks to rising CO\u2082 levels fueling a remarkable global green renaissance. Data from NASA\u2019s AVHRR and MODIS instruments show that 25% to 50% of Earth&#8217;s\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/0q4FOL2oqA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=115212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115213,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115212\/revisions\/115213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}