{"id":138685,"date":"2025-10-19T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138685"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:00:10","slug":"how-china-is-pushing-back-the-invading-sand-dunes-and-winning-in-arid-ningxia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138685","title":{"rendered":"How China is pushing back the invading sand dunes and winning in arid Ningxia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning Post\u201cThe wind blows all the year round, not a bird in the sky nor a leaf can be found.\u201d This saying, once common in northwest China\u2019s arid Ningxia Hui autonomous region, captures the suffering inflicted on its communities by the desert.<br \/>\nOver the past 40 years, the Baijitan National Nature Reserve has served as a frontline fortification against the Mu Us Desert for Ningxia\u2019s capital Yinchuan and its nearly 3 million people.<br \/>\nBy the 1950s, the desert had advanced to within 5km (3 miles) of the Yellow&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3329077\/how-china-pushing-back-invading-sand-dunes-and-winning-arid-ningxia?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning Post\u201cThe wind blows all the year round, not a bird in the sky nor a leaf can be found.\u201d This saying, once common in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138685"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}