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 ...

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’s vast tree-planting campaigns have not only greened deserts and hillsides, they have also altered how water moves through the country’s air, soil and rivers. By turning bare land into forest at ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: According to Reuters, China grew 116,000 square miles of trees, increasing the country’s total forest coverage from 10 percent in 1949 to roughly 25 ...