Olympics in the Desert?
There’s a dust bowl growing in China that’s far bigger than the one that hit the U.S. in the 1930s. It’s so big it was being studied from space?how dust affects global warming was one of the science projects on board the shuttle Columbia. China fought hard to have the 2008 Olympics held in Beijing, but now they’re worried that the city will be a desert by the time the athletes arrive. 40% of China may soon become a desert and it’s affecting other countries as well. Chinese dust clouds regularly make it all the way across the Pacific to the U.S. Dust has shut down schools and airports in South Korea and Japan, and one Korean car factory has started shrink-wrapping its cars as they come off the assembly line.
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