Mongolia: Grasslands Turning to Sea
Published on October 8th, 2007
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BAOLIGEN, China (Reuters) – The steppes of Inner Mongolia are arid even at the best of times, but low rainfall as world temperatures rise is turning these grasslands into sand.
“The wild grass reached up to my knees in the past,” said Chaogula, a 40-year-old herdsman as he pointed to barren fields in this remote part of China near the Mongolian border.
“But there’s very little grass now. It hasn’t rained here in six years and we have to buy fertilizers and feed for our livestock. We never needed these before,” he said.
