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China's forest recovery shows hope for mitigating global climate change
Description: China's sweeping program to restore forests across the country is working. The vast destruction of China's forests, leveled after decades of logging, floods and conversion to farmland, has become a story of recovery, according to the first independent verification. Forests are crucial to ensuring soil and water conservation and climate regulation. The fate of forests in the world's most populous nation has global consequences by virtue of the country's sheer magnitude and its rapid development. [Source: Michigan State University]
URL: http://csis.msu.edu/news/china-forest-recovery-climate-change
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Source: Michigan State University
Publish Date: 3/18/2016
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