一个多世纪以来，科学家一直产生偶然的幻想，要把撒哈拉大沙漠的大部分地区改造成为拥有植被茂盛的内陆海或一大片耕作地的绿洲。

For more than a century, a few scientists have occasionally daydreamed of transforming much of the Sahara desert green, with a lush inland sea or vast tracts of farmland.

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拜耳作物科学事业群推动了一项实验计画，希望在持续密集耕作的土地上，设法帮动植物找到栖息住所。

Bayer CropScience has initiated a pilot project that is looking for ways of giving plants and animals a habitat on land that is farmed intensively and sustainable.

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对科学论文进行的另外一个审视也发现，当测量到30 cm更大深度时，免耕田地并不比经耕作的田地储存更多的碳。

A separate review of the scientific literature also found that no-till fields sequestered no more carbon than ploughed fields when carbon changes at soil depths greater than 30 cm are examined.

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