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In China’s Gobi Desert, locals fight desertification with simple methods! They lay 3x3 straw checkerboards to cut wind by half and trap most of the sand. With drought-resistant plants and special mesh nets that pull water from the air, over three generations they turned more than 6,000 square meters...

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