China and Mongolia fight sandstorms
Mining and climate change are damaging the grasslands that prevent sandstorms. Can greater cooperation help? Battsengel, 50, lives in the south of Mongolia, in Khanbogd district, Ömnögovi province, just over the border from China’s Inner Mongolia. He has made a living herding livestock since he was 20. But sandstorms of increasing frequency are making things very tough. “Precipitation started to fall off in 2004. By 2015, we were seeing long […]