The Age of Megafires: The World Reaches a Climate Point
In the late 1980s, three massive fires occurred in China, Canada and the United States. In the spring and summer of 1987, one of the largest wildfires ever recorded—the Black…
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With Activists Silenced, China Moves Ahead on Big Dam Project
The Yangtze River courses from the Himalayan Plateau in Tibet down into southwestern China’s Yunnan province, carving a path through a breathtaking landscape where steep ridges are covered in Yunnan…
As the world’s deltas sink, rising seas are far from the only culprit
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims flock to Sagar, a teardrop-shaped island in the Hooghly Estuary, 60 miles south of Kolkata. A temple stands on its southern tip,…