[dugluak]

Didn't NASA report recently that earth is greener than 20 years ago due to China and India?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19228922

[otikik]

Please don't just stop at the title. From the article:

> 82% of the greening seen in India – comes from intensive cultivation of food crops.

And then:

> For example, increased food production in India is facilitated by groundwater irrigation. If the groundwater is depleted, this trend may change.

What this new article says is that groundwater is depleted.

[Mikeb85]

Yup. But let's not let science get in the way of alarming headlines...

[athenot]

I have no knowledge of the situation but couldn't the 2 be related? As in more (green) trees pulling more water out of the ground?

Then again I would imagine the water pulled out comes back rather fast in the form of a tropical storm.

[skinnymuch]

Read the article. It isn’t as simple as the headline. It’s not good to assume a headline answers all and is the only thing that needs to be known?l.

[Mikeb85]

I read the article. It's mainly about reviving traditional methods of conserving water. The headline is far more alarming.

Versus news like this: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/one-third-of-world-s-...

[StavrosK]

"You have ebola but at least your flu is gone." "So I'm going to be all right?!"