Forestation: Is China’s tree planting a greenwashing project? [Video]

Five years ago, a paper published in one of the world’s most prestigious peer-reviewed journals made headlines across the world. The authors used NASA satellite data to claim that at least one-fourth of the world’s green leaf area increase since the 2000s was due to Chinese tree planting efforts. Some celebrated, some couldn’t believe it. What happened here, and are China’s newly planted forests as successful as they claim? Watch this episode of In Fact with Kyle Obermann to find out more.