Khishig-Undur (Mongolia) (AFP) – Mongolian herder Purev Batmunkh sighs as he picks through waste strewn across a field — the refuse of an unsightly and deadly waste pollution problem affecting swathes of the steppe.
Rural Mongolians fight blight of plastic pollution in idyllic steppe
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