A new study in
Nature Climate Change found that for the past few years, the earth has been getting a little bit greener, accumulating an additional 4 tons of biomass (vegetation) between 2003 and 2012.
As
PopSci reported, the rise is due to the fact that former Soviet countries have started to grow forest back over farmland, plus China has started massive tree planting campaigns. The researchers also found that more arid areas had a lot of vegetation as well, including shrubs in savannahs in Africa, Australia, and South America.
Sadly, the above two diagrams do show that tropical forest deforestation in the Amazon continues apace, but at least the overall global trend is positive.
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