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China Planted 78 Billion New Trees, and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle
(www.popularmechanics.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2026
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That's still over a billion trees a year. Actually that's over 1,500,000,000 trees a year. Again...HOW?
And this begs a side question. Out of those 78 Billion trees, how many are alive now?