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 ...

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 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 ...