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. Between 2001 ...

February 5, 2013, Shenzhen and Kunming, China - In a collaborative study published online today in Nature Communications, researchers from Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

This photo taken on Sept. 10, 2025 shows an ancient tree in Jiamei Village, Wenchang City, south China's Hainan province. [Photo/Xinhua] China is currently home to approximately 5.08 million ancient ...

China’s vast tree-planting campaigns have not only greened deserts and hillsides, they have also altered how water moves through the country’s air, soil and rivers. By turning bare land into forest at ...

In ancient times the shifting sands of the Taklamakan, a desert in China’s north-western Xinjiang region, swallowed up entire cities. Today they still cause trouble. On the edges of the desert, sand ...

SHANGHAI, Aug 20 (Reuters) - China will plant 36,000 square kilometres of new forest a year - more than the total area of Belgium - from this year to 2025 as it bids to combat climate change and ...