If you want evidence that global warming is happening, you need only look to China. Unseen by the rest of the world, much of the north of the country is turning into a land of droughts, dust storms and deserted villages.
… their slopes steep and craggy, their soaring peaks lost in the distant haze. As the bus … perched precariously on each successive peak. On the rocky slopes fruit trees …
Within two years, Britain could be facing a series of blackouts and the ignomony of importing the resource it once considered so plentiful from a host of politically unstable countries.
… is insufficient and that, during periods of peak demand, there is too little margin for … failure in periods of heavy demand. Once peak periods were confined to the frosty … all night as cheaper electricity during off peak hours encourages 24 hour working. Most of …
Some 245 Indian villages are in the middle of being destroyed by a $7 billion dam project that will consume more energy than it provides and has even been condemned by its World Bank sponsors.
… pumped back into the reservoir so as to cover peak consumption periods in cities, the dam …
Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has ripped out virgin forests, dug up minerals and metals, and dumped nuclear waste with little regard for the fragile ecology of the Tibetan plateau.
… caused mainly by the operation of Manwan as a peak load power station, so more water is …
A harrowing insight into the hugely profitable and brutal world of captive dolphins
… at any one time. Music is played over loudspeakers, the trainers address the audience and … Adults up to the age of 30, covering the peak breeding years, are worth $100,000 to …