China’s ambitious re-greening efforts are certainly good for the planet, but they may also be unintentionally redistributing ...

China set out to halt dust storms, reclaim deserts and lock away carbon by planting trees at a scale no country had attempted before. In the process, it has unintentionally rewritten how water moves ...

China set out to fight desertification and climate change by planting trees at a scale no country has attempted before, carpeting vast swaths of land with new forests. That campaign has now collided ...

China's efforts to slow land degradation and climate change by planting trees and restoring grasslands have shifted water around the country in huge, unforeseen ways, new research shows. Between 2001 ...

Researchers have counted the number of trees in China and mapped their distribution across the country using a laser-based technique called lidar. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Reforesting areas of the world comes with major benefits, but adding billions of trees can come with unintended consequences. A new study details how China’s massive regreening effort has altered the ...

a Spatial pattern of tree numbers within a 0.01° grid. b Latitudinal distribution of tree density and total tree numbers, with shaded areas indicating the standard deviation of the estimated tree ...