China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution

www.livescience.com

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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I wonder how much of that percentage is influenced by those areas China was spray painting green to make it look like a forest
Collectively, China's ecosystem restoration initiatives account for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017.
Wow
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.