article_snippet.sent: But despite this, the planet has got greener in the past decade, with the total amount of plant coverage increasing overall, according to one study.
article_snippet.sent: The increase is so noticeable that the world's trees and plants now store almost four billion more tonnes of carbon than the world's trees and plants did in 2003.
article_snippet.sent: This is thanks to tree-planting in China, forest regrowth in former Soviet states because of abandoned farms, and more lush savannas because of higher rainfall.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists analysed 20 years of satellite data and found an increase in carbon, despite ongoing large-scale tropical deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia, according to research published in Nature Climate Change.