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China's forests recovering at the expense of other nations, study says
2016-03-18 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: After taking a beating from decades of logging, China's forests have begun to regenerate, but the problem of deforestation may have shifted to other nations exporting wood to the world's most populous country, researchers said on Friday. Between 2000 and 2010, about 1.2 percent of China's territory - an area larger than Portugal - experienced a significant net gain in tree cover, said the study from researchers at Michigan State University in the United States. Instead of cutting down its own...
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