Surviving in Isolation, Where the Steppe Has Turned to Sand

May 10, 2021/ Maxim Babenko / Environment, Journalism, New York Times

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment

In the Russian republic of Kalmykia, the encroaching desert has transformed the landscape. “Nature,” one farmer said, “is forcing us to leave.”

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