SINGAPORE — Mongolia was the main source of northern China's worst sandstorms in five years from January to April, and may have contributed as much as 70% of the dust floating over capital Beijing, China's environment ministry said on Monday. Northern China is routinely hit by heavy sandstorms in the spring, with conditions worsened by deforestation and higher regional temperatures. It has tried to shield its major cities by planting extensive new forest known as 'shelterbelts'. But with the number of sandstorms rising again since 2017, the focus has gradually shifted to China's northern neighbor, Mongolia, where a changing climate together with overgrazing and overmining have caused conditions to deteriorate.

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