China and India are leading the Increase in “Greening Efforts” Across the World
A new satellite-based study shows that China and India are leading the increase in “greening efforts” across the world. The study published in Nature Sustainability, shows that the change driving these efforts emerges from China’s ambitious tree-planting programmes and intensive agriculture practised in both countries.
The findings
- A group of researchers from the US, Europe, China and India had detected the greening phenomenon in satellite data from the 1980s but it was initially unclear whether human activity was the cause.
- Through NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, the team found that the global green leaf area has increased by 5% ....
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