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Topic Reading-Vol.2506-2/20/2019

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2019/02/20 Topic Reading-Vol.2506-2/20/2019

Dear MEL Topic Readers,

China and India are making the planet greener, NASA says

While these world’s most two populous countries have recently been just blamed for the increase in air pollutions and carbon dioxide emissions, they are found to be the most contributors to global greening, according to NASA. High-resolution data of the Earth’s surface gathered by NASA’s two satellites showed a five percent increase in green leaf area on the planet between 2000 and 2017. And what surprised the scientists was that about a quarter of the leaf increase came from China and nearly seven percent was attributed to India. More specifically, over 40% of China’s increase is seen in forests area and about a third comes from croplands, while most of the increase in India is attributed to croplands.

Has this increase in green land offset the negative impacts on environmental ecosystems of other parts of the world? Will global greening effects make up the negative impacts of global warming? That all seem to depend on humans’ determination, ingenuity, and unity.

Enjoy reading and learn what humans have done and could do to the environment of our mother planet.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/13/world/china-india-greener-planet-scli-intl/index.html

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