Space, Goats, and Climate Change

90% of the world's cashmere, the wonderfully soft fiber used in scarves and sweaters, comes from China and Mongolia. Cashmere goats are raised by nomadic pastoralists on marginal habitat in the Gobi Desert. These herders are fighting the effects of the climate crisis... with a little help from NASA.

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