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China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution (www.livescience.com)
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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.

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[–] stenAanden@feddit.dk 1 points 1 week ago

Whenever we restore nature we lose some farmland, human occupation, etc. Doesn't really mean there is a bad side.