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Desert’s Stronger Grip Shakes Inner Mongolia
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Circle of Blue revisits seas of dying grass and blowing sand in northern China.
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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.