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China and India Lead the Way in Greening

Ambitious tree-planting programs and intensified agriculture have led to more land area covered in vegetation.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story China and India Lead the Way in Greening.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Chen et al., (2019). Story by Abby Tabor, NASA Ames Research Center, with Mike Carlowicz, Earth Observatory.

Published February 12, 2019
Data acquired 2000 - 2017

Sources:: Aqua > MODIS; Terra > MODIS