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Cloud-Milking Technique Aims to Combat Desertification Crisis

11/22/2025

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Gustavo Viera, an environmentalist with Life Nieblas, says desertification has intensified due to agriculture and climate change, driving forest loss including the Canary Islands.
Viera's Life Nieblas team developed a cloud-milking technique that collects water from fog with a netting system mimicking pine needles to irrigate saplings.
Project head scientist Vicenç Carabassa emphasizes urgent water conservation amid drought in the Mediterranean and the Canaries as restoration proceeds.

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Gustavo Viera, an environmentalist with Life Nieblas, says desertification has intensified due to agriculture and climate change, driving forest loss including the Canary Islands.
Viera's Life Nieblas team developed a cloud-milking technique that collects water from fog with a netting system mimicking pine needles to irrigate saplings.
Project head scientist Vicenç Carabassa emphasizes urgent water conservation amid drought in the Mediterranean and the Canaries as restoration proceeds.