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There was an interesting expose on China's Three Gorges Dam in yesterday's WSJ (Europe ed.). It looks like up to 4.8 million more people might have to move from the Yangtze River valley because of the dam. The massive $25B power project, completed ...

Visiting superlatives is always a fantastic experience. Visiting dams is also pretty high on the list. Now, tourists can combine the best of both worlds and travel to China to visit the largest dam in the world. Three Gorges Dam is not fully ...

Today in New York, the Film Forum premieres Manufactured Landscapes, which follows photographer Edward Burtynsky as he travels through places like China and Bangladesh, capturing images of globalized industry. Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, the film ...

The New York Times has been running a series this year discussing China's remarkable economic growth, and how that has impacted the country's environment. The latest in this saga (we're on part 6) is the under-reported tale of the last two soft-shell ...

A 300,000 tonne garbage mountain on the shores of the Yangtze River in South-West China is finally going to be cleared by September 2008, after a 1000-years of being there! Since the Song Dynasty (960-1279), residents of the Chinese town Luoqi have ...

This month’s Men’s Journal features an article whose theme is horribly depressing; phenomenal travel destinations that will soon disappear. For those of you who don’t believe in Global Warming, you may want to click over to some ...

After posting yesterday about the maiden journey of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, I ran across the following article in Wired Magazine.  As you might suspect, the Wired article focuses on the technological advances that were necessary to build what ...

What better way to spend an adventure-filled whitewater rafting trip along Idaho's Hell's Canyon (the deepest gorge in North America) than to experience it while sampling an array of Oregon Pinot Noir's and delicious cuisine whipped up on-site by a ...

The cheapest place on earth? Well, according to the annual Cost of Living Survey conducted by the multinational consulting firm, Mercer, the cheapest place on this planet is Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. In fact, this is the fifth year in a row ...

Christopher Rufo and Keith Ochwat are a couple of fresh filmmakers who, on a whim, decided to fly to Mongolia, where they managed to camp with a tribe of nomadic reindeer herders, challenge a provincial wrestling champion to a match, and drink tea ...

Do you remember when you were a kid and your parents would warn you not to go down to the reservoir? It's not that the reservoir wasn't fun - it was just, you know, a little dangerous for kids. It was really steep, there was unsupervised water ...

If you're into petroglyphs, you will be way into Sloan Canyon, a sacred Indian site that is not only beautiful, but it is also home to more than 1,700 petroglyphs. Reaching the canyon can be tough. It was designated a National Conservation ...

The front desk staff of the Mainstay Suites in Fargo, North Dakota had to deal with an unusual guest. A moose came by the hotel but was unable to communicate his exact needs. So, he hung out in the courtyard for a while, noshing on grass and leaves ...

My guess is that recent rains in Colorado and the West might help the water situation out there. But I'm not sure. But I was browsing through old pieces at Outside and came across this article on a film about David Brower of Sierra Club fame. One of ...