China’s efforts to slow land degradation and climate change by planting trees and restoring grasslands have shifted water around the country in huge, unforeseen ways, new research shows.
wow. this is a tough one to comment on as its not really a good/bad but more its complicated thing.
how is it not univocally a good thing?
Trees good, china bad.
The areas of China with higher percentages of population is overall getting less water than before as there is more evaporation and China will need to account for this in their water distribution plans.
It comes from chy-nah?
No, your stupid and unhelpful comment aside. The environment has evolved and changed over millions of years in the most delicate balance. Sudden large scale ecological changes by man can have a wide reaching effect all around the globe so it’s hard to predict the outcome of something like this
It is very interesting, but I wish the article was a bit longer and was more specific about the comparative impacts of the water distribution effects it referred to.
The article basically says “stuff changed, here are a couple of numbers”, but it didn’t elaborate on the actual changes and effects and how they compare to 20 or 50 years ago from either an ecological vantage point or human experience point of view.
Uh oh… SOMEONE is not gonna like this. For some reason.
Collectively, China’s ecosystem restoration initiatives account for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017.
Wow
