![Video: Blackwater: Man Vs. Mill](https://www.circleofblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/th_blackwater.jpg)
Video: Blackwater: Man Vs. Mill
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Dianhua Paper Mill discharged wastewater into a lagoon, killing sheep, sickening people, and damaging grasslands.
![Video: Desert Overtaking Inner Mongolia](https://www.circleofblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/th_desert.jpg)
Video: Desert Overtaking Inner Mongolia
Changes in patterns of precipitation in an already parched region, leading to severe shortages of freshwater.
![Video: Reign of Sand](https://www.circleofblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/th_reign.jpg)
Video: Reign of Sand
The blowing sand in Inner Mongolia is more evidence of the consequences of the duel China fights as it promotes rapid industrial development.
![Video: Looking Out on My Homeland](https://www.circleofblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/th_homeland.jpg)
Video: Looking Out on My Homeland
Traditional nomadic culture on the steppes of Inner Mongolia was defined by the insistence of wind, herding, and the search for water.
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Blackwater: Rare Court Victory in Pollution Case
Dianhua Paper Mill discharged wastewater into a lagoon, killing sheep, sickening people, and damaging grasslands.
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A Track to Modern Nomads
East Umchjin County, near the border with Mongolia, a place renowned for what Chinese scientists call "typical grasslands.
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Drinking Milk Tea
An Inner Mongolia herder, confined by the government to a small pasture for his animals, is nevertheless more fortunate than some.
![The "green wall of China," a barrier of trees planted to try to stop drifting sands on the Inner Mongolia grasslands](https://www.circleofblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/JGanter_IMongoliaDesertification_JG3_1300.jpg)
A Vast Chinese Grassland, a Way of Life Turns to Dust
600 miles north of Beijing the whole of the largest contiguous grasslands on Earth opens to the horizon.