Desertification prevention. People laying squares of straw bales used to help prevent the shifting sands of the Badain Jaran and Tengger deserts from

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Desertification prevention. People laying squares of straw bales used to help prevent the shifting sands of the Badain Jaran and Tengger deserts from over-running the nearby Minqui's Oasis. Photographed in China.

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