Friday, March 9, 2012

Planting Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Fight Dangerous Dust Storms in Seoul

Honza Soukup/CC BY 2.0. The Gobi desert in Mongolia.It's not quite the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings creating a hurricane across the world, but desertification in Mongolia is generating dangerous dust storms thousands of miles away.Former South Korean Ambassador to China Kwon Byong Hyon made the connection more than a decade ago, and has helped spearhead an effort since then to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve

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