Collectively, these data show general increasing trends in both plant
growth and evaporation with recent climate change mainly
driven by
vegetation greening and rising atmosphere moisture deficits.
The latest article on greening I've seen is from a couple of months ago: «Human population
growth offsets climate -
driven increase in woody
vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa» https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0081 Thanks to climate change and CO2 increase the balance is positive towards greening over human deforestation.