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Preserving the world's truly great places has never been easy, often because it's hard to determine just what they are. One person's verdant grassland might be another's development site; where you see a mountain range, someone else might see a coal vein. Sorting out such matters can become impossible - especially when the debates take place across borders, as preservationists in one country plead with another not to burn a grassland or dam a river or tear down a thousand-year-old temple...
...later joined by another Merkava and an armored bulldozer, which brazenly crossed the main road leading into Bint Jbeil, causing consternation to motorists forced to brake to an unexpected halt. Further east, huge clouds of yellow dust rose into the sky as Israeli armored vehicles plowed through the rocky grassland. The Israeli movements were closely observed by Hizballah men, who have foregone their normally unobtrusive presence and are now swarming over all the villages of the south...
Harvard’s expansion into Allston, which also includes the relocation of Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health, will change the neighborhood significantly, converting asphalt into grassland and altering traffic routes to the river...
...Tibetan Plateau. Given that it's just two days' drive from Chengdu, capital of China's Sichuan province, it's also one of the more accessible of the summer festivals that take place across what was once the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Kham-a sweeping expanse of grassland now incorporated into Sichuan, the Tibetan Autonomous Region, and the provinces of Qinghai and Yunnan. Many of the thousands of Tibetan nomads (or Khampas)-swathed in fox-lined cloaks, their necks strewn with red coral, turquoise and amber-travel for several weeks to reach Litang for a riotous few days of dancing...
...Made in China" is synonymous with cheap products, but the country is exporting something far costlier: environmental degradation. Already, crops in Japan and South Korea are withering from Chinese acid rain, which poisons a quarter of the Chinese landmass. Toxic dust from Chinese sandstorms, the result of grassland erosion and logging that have helped turn 27% of the country into desert, travels as far as U.S. shores, obscuring visibility in national parks and raising mercury levels in fish. Although the U.S. still produces far more greenhouse gases, particularly in per capita terms, China is the world's second largest polluter...