"Forests act as nature's cooling barrier. Replacing them with farmland diminishes this protective function," said Zhu. This ...

Tucked away in the northwestern corner of Xing'an league in north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Arxan ranks among China's "tiniest city" by population - just 28,600 residents - yet exerts ...

China’s total grain production plummeted from 512.3 million tons in 1998 to 430.7 million tons last year, according to the Information Center of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The first phase of the project lasted from 2000 to 2012, as the government planted some 7.5 million hectares of trees. The second phase of the reforestation project is still underway.

Reforestation would have different effects in different parts of the world, with more cooling in tropical regions and more warming in areas of the Northern Hemisphere with lots of trees. (Northern ...