The tradition has passed from great-grandfathers who once herded cows through green grasslands to suit-and-tie civil servants who toil in this capital city's office towers.
Downloadable here, the lyrics make a direct connection between environmental abuse and social unrest: "We have grazed animals here thousands of years...How many people are coming here to open mines and plunder our resources...Our home is being devastated..The green grasslands are turning yellow".
"We have grazed animals here thousands of years...How many people are coming here to open mines and plunder our resources...Our home is being devastated..The green grasslands are turning yellow". I have not been able to verify how popular this rap has become in Inner Mongolia, but it is unlikely to ever appear on a karaoke machine here.
From the gold and green grasslands of Cotopaxi National Park to the desolate, glacier-capped Chimborazo, Ecuador's tallest peak, there are plenty of dramatic moments.
The family drove out to the electric-green grasslands of the raceground on Tuesday from their apartment in Ulan Bator.
The desert (light green) and grassland (green) species studied all had root diameters of less than 0.25 millimeters.
South Sudan is covered by green swathes of grassland, swamps and tropical forest.
Last August, Xinhua ran a story under the headline "A Mining Miracle" that said "the scene has been transformed, replaced with a panorama of lush green trees and grasslands, new roads and infrastructure, and cleaner mining facilities, giving the local people a better life".
The two variables that best explained the variability in visitation rates and seed set were the amount of green areas (gardens, parks, grasslands) in the surroundings and the abundance of T. repens in the lawns.
