China's Great Green Wall: 46 Years of Planting Billions of Trees to Hold Back the Desert

Launched in 1978 and running to 2050, the Three-North Shelterbelt Program targets 100M hectares across arid northern China—but monoculture risks and low survival rates temper its climate promise.

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