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Antiecology - China - Road rash of the Mongolian hinterland
BAYAN OVOO, MONGOLIA, China - The Globe and Mail (Toronto,ON,Canada), by GEOFFREY YORK -Aug 22, 2005: -- Every morning, the convoys of Chinese coal trucks crawl slowly through the Gobi Desert, kicking up clouds of dust and gouging ruts up to a half-metre deep in the fragile desert sands... The 18-wheel trucks, weighing up to 100 tonnes, plow through the soft desert sand on their way to the Chinese border. The only problem: There is no road to the border, so they simply create their own crude tracks, wider every day, destroying the land of Mongolia's nomadic herdsmen...
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