Deserts creeping up in Mongolia, demand for cashmere partly blame

Deserts creeping up in Mongolia, demand for cashmere partly blame

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Photo taken in June shows a herd of goats pastured in a field in a hilly district near the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia. (Kyodo)

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