Salt storms sting herders on the Mongolian Plateau

"“At that time, many voices claimed that grassland degradation was due to the climate. Our research suggests that it was caused by humans,” said Yi Jin, a retired professor at Inner Mongolia Agricultural University who studies grassland ecology on the Mongolian Plateau."

it's understood that "salting the earth" is bad, and now dried out lake basins are becoming large enough repositories of salt that they contribute to salt storms?????