Grist | Topics | 27 Results

RESULTS		Results 26 – 27 of 27
Page:1 2
Headline	Author	Published	Section
True Grit		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
True Grit For the third year in a row, massive dust storms from China have blown into South Korea, closing schools, canceling flights, and creating a run on facemasks and respiratory medication. The storms are the result of severe desertification in China, where the Gobi Desert grew by 20,000 square miles from 1994 to 1999; the desertification stems from overfarming, overgrazing, and deforestation, among ...
Topics: air pollution, China, desertification, South Korea (all these topics)

Sea Ya!		09 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sea Ya! Central Asia's Aral Sea, which used to be the world's fourth-largest lake, has shrunk so dramatically that it has split into two separate bodies of water. The two rivers that feed it were diverted in the 1960s to water cotton fields; now just a trickle reaches the sea, and much of that is contaminated by pesticides and fertilizers. As the sea has receded, villages and small cities ...
Topics: Aral Sea, desertification, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Page:1 2		Results 26 – 27 of 27