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Bloomberg: Dust storms and desertification are two of China’s biggest environmental challenges, and they can’t be addressed without dealing with the stressed northern region of Inner Mongolia. Years of intensive agriculture, the ravages of open-pit coal mining, and climate change have depleted the scarce water resources of the already arid territory. Its grasslands are disappearing and lakes are drying up. China’s response includes the “Great Green Wall”—planting vast numbers of trees to form a protective belt......
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China fights desert’s spread and puts Mongols’ way of life at risk
Posted by Bloomberg: Dexter Roberts on October 19th, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation