Since the 1950s, China has restored vegetation across the Loess Plateau; some studies have found that forestation could reduce water yield in drier areas

Planting trees is often presented as an environmental solution. On China's Loess Plateau, however, one of the world's largest landscape restoration efforts revealed a less straightforward consequence: in a semi-arid region, more vegetation can also mean less water flowing through streams and rivers.

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