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A farmer in the once fertile Hexi Valley fights off the unrelenting sands by stretching plastic film over his seedlings. The depression in the foreground of the photo was once a reservoir.

China Dust Bowl

Desertification blights the provinces of northwestern China.
Photographs by Benoit Aquin / Polaris

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