China and Mongolia are battling to control massive dust storms

By Thomas White, Lecturer in China and Sustainable Development, King's College London
Andreas Baas, Professor of Aeolian Geomorphology, King's College London
Han Cheng, Senior Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Dust storms regularly affect northern China, including its capital Beijing. In recent years, Chinese scientists and officials have traced the source of the dust storms to its neighbour Mongolia.

Much of the dust over Beijing in the spring of 2023, for example, originated from parts of Mongolia, seemingly driven by the warming and drying of the climate in the region.

Mongolia’s…

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