For Saydi Emin, a farmer living on the southern edge of the Taklimakan Desert, known as the "Sea of Death," sandstorms were a constant menace. They would rip away the plastic film covering his fields ...
Babusha, the largest sand dune at the southern edge of the Tengger Desert in Gansu, was a major source of sandstorms in the 1980s, when the southward movement of the desert devoured farmland and ...