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 ...

China set out to halt dust storms, reclaim deserts and lock away carbon by planting trees at a scale no country had attempted before. In the process, it has unintentionally rewritten how water moves ...

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 ...

In Beijing's central district, trees are everywhere: in parks, along roadsides and in courtyards inside people's houses. Many ...

The Chinese military officials in brown uniforms fan out around rows of young trees, shoveling soil into freshly dug pits. The camera pans to the most senior leaders one by one, in order of rank. But ...

a Spatial pattern of tree numbers within a 0.01° grid. b Latitudinal distribution of tree density and total tree numbers, with shaded areas indicating the standard deviation of the estimated tree ...