China Planted 78 Billion New Trees—and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle
www.popularmechanics.com
The country has planted a bunch of new trees since 1981, but that extra foliage is shifting more precipitation to some areas while drying out others.
  • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Popular Mechanics is US-based, so they use short billions: 1bio = 1 000 000 000.

    You are right, long billions (1bio = 1 000 000 000 000) would be a lot more. Though even that would still be possible, but then ~35% of the chinese population would have to be employed in planting trees.