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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 ...

Globally, 2.2 billion people don’t have reliable access to clean drinking water. That’s roughly equivalent to the population of China and India combined. It’s an alarming total that the United Nations ...