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Chinese PM admits sandstorms are sign of 'ecological destruction'

The Independent: Beijingers unfurled their face-scarves and wiped the coating of yellow dust off their homes yesterday after days of sandstorms which deposited on to the capital 300,000 tons of sand from the Gobi desert and dust from the thousands of building sites around the city.

Posted by Physics Today on April 21, 2006 10:13 AM |

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