DESERTIFICATION
4/7/2002
Schools in Seoul, South Korea, are closed as a huge dust cloud blows in from China's fast-spreading deserts, some 1,200 kilometers away.
Source
Howard W. French, "China's Growing Deserts Are Suffocating Korea," New York Times, 14 April 2002.
Links
International Water Management Institute
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
UNDP Office to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNSO)
Worldwatch Links
State of the World 2000 - Chapter 3: Redesigning Irrigated Agriculture
World Watch Magazine: When the World's Wells Run Dry, Sept/Oct 1999
Worldwatch Research Library: Water
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