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 ...

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 ...

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Plant more trees and the planet will thank us, right? A new wave of science is showing that things are not quite that simple, especially when forests and water are already living on the edge. In ...