CHINA AND INDIA LEAD IN GREENING OF THE EARTH
A new study reports a counter-intuitive finding that China and India, the two most populous and emerging countries, rather than the developed nations, are leaders in greening the lands through planting of trees and intensive crop cultivation
Contacts: Chi Chen (chenchi@bu.edu)
Ranga Myneni (ranga.myneni@gmail.com)
Read the paper at Nature Sustainability
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- NASA Press Release (English)
- Boston University Research (English)
- Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (English and German)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (German)
- Norsk institutt for naturforskning – NINA (Norwegian)
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