China’s vast tree-planting campaigns—hailed as one of the largest environmental efforts in human history—are now revealing a more complicated reality. While reforestation has delivered clear ecological benefits, new research suggests it is also reshaping the country’s water cycle in unexpected ways. A recent study published in Earth's Future highlights how decades of … [Read more...] about China Planted 78 Billion New Trees—and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle

