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  "title": "Social Transformation in the Sands",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/social-transformation-in-the-sands-4458062",
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  "summary": "[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] On the southeastern rim of the Tengger Desert, where dunes can rise 30 metres high and advance significant metres a year, a private afforestation effort is attempting something larger than tree planting. At Malan Lake in Alxa, Inner Mongolia, founder Mr YUEN Shu Wah is testing whether desert restoration can succeed by…",
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