Mongolia's nomads turn to private land | GlobalPost: "In a study published last month in the journal Global Change Biology, researchers from the University of Oregon using satellite images from NASA found that 70 percent of Mongolia's grassland -- which makes up almost four-fifths of the country -- is now "degraded".
Twelve percent of the country's biomass has disappeared in recent years, they said, calling overgrazing a "primary contributor" to the alarming decline of the steppe."
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