Study reveals China’s new forests aren’t really forests

Mongabay
Jun 7, 2018, 7:37 pm175 pts
In 1998, severe flooding caused by heavy rains and exacerbated by deforestation in southern China killed more than 4,000 people. To reduce the chances of such an event happening again, China instituted ambitious reforestation policies in the hopes that planting trees would help stabilize soil and sop up…

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