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China’s rapid economic growth combined with central urban planning has produced dozens of ghost cities, which are brand new cities with almost no inhabitants. Some of these cities, such as Kangbashi, were built to house over a million individuals, but currently hold only 20,000. This unused housing is shocking since China’s population is rapidly urbanizing.… Continue reading Ghost Cities →

400 million individuals in China have been impacted by desertification over the past decade. Desertification in China has two primary causes. First, in the mid 1900s excessive farming began to cause soil degradation. In Naiman, desertification had turned 300,000 acres of grassland into desert by 2005. However, nowadays the bigger threat is climate change. Many… Continue reading Desertification →