While deforestation is going unabated in tropical areas of the globe, it turns out that forests have been gaining grounds over the past decade in former Soviet countries, in China—where an ambitious reforestation policy has been in place for a long time—and even in arid areas of Africa, Australia and South American. Shrubs and other vegetation have been sprouting there so significantly as to be spotted by the spying eye of satellites. The latter provided data for this new study in Nature Climate Change.
The planet is becoming greener, according to satellite data
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