PhysOrg: 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 published in today's Science Advances by Michigan State University (MSU) researchers.
"It is encouraging that China's forest has been recovering in the midst of its daunting environmental challenges such as severe air pollution and...