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You May Be Surprised To Learn Which Two Countries Are Making The Globe A Lot Greener

Satellite images show the amount of green vegetation on Earth increasing, despite deforestation. But some of the added greenery has a down side.
A landscape with a reforestation project in Gongxian County in Sichuan, China.

The world is getting greener.

That's according to , a doctoral student in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. Chen has been mining data collected by an orbiting NASA camera that monitors green vegetation on

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