100,000 fruit trees are to be planted around the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator. The South Korean authority for international cooperation, the Kook-min Bank and the NGO Green Asia want to counteract desertification and the devastation of rural areas. Increasingly sandstorms sweep across the barren landscape from Mongolia to Korea. The reforestation project is to last five years.
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Far away from the capital Ulaanbaatar, former Mongolian nomads are digging for gold. Photographer Timothy Fadeck zoomed in on their camps.
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We should be grateful to students like Greta Thunberg who are taking on environmental issues.
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In Mongolia, going to the hairdresser or booking up an electrician is not something to do off the cuff.
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In his novel "The Overstory," shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Richard Powers interweaves his characters like roots on a forest floor - and joins them to fight for the rights of trees.
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An oasis couldn't be more beautiful, with a moon-shaped lake and surrounded by “singing” dunes.
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