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 …
Costing over $1 billion, the Karahnjukar hydroelectric dam in Iceland is a hugely controversial project. Mark Lynas journeyed to the blasting face, hoping to work out for himself whether this industrial elephant is green or brilliant-white.
… there appeared to be little vegetation to speak of across much of the proposed reservoir … a huge triangular scar from the flanks of the peak. Roads criss-crossed the whole area, and …