The country has planted a bunch of new trees since 1981, but that extra foliage is shifting more precipitation to some areas while drying out others.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Nearly half a century ago, China had an audacious ...

China is hellbent on a mission to plant billions of trees, but a new study suggests these artificially planted forests are behaving quite differently from their natural counterparts. Since the 1970s, ...

China set out to stop its deserts from marching east and to lock more carbon in the ground. In the process, it planted tens of billions of trees across its dry northern frontier and far beyond, on a ...

A paper provides significant insights into China's tree population: by 2020, the average tree density in China was approximately 689 trees per hectare, bringing the total number of trees in the ...

China's natural forests play a crucial role in absorbing carbon dioxide and fighting climate change. But how much more carbon can they store? A new study in Forest Ecosystems provides a detailed ...