There’s been another landslide near the reservoir of the Three Gorges dam, the latest of many to jolt the mammoth project.
State media says one person was killed and two are missing after earth tumbled down at the entrance of a railway tunnel near Badong.
Like many foreign journalists, I wrote a recent story that suggested the Three Gorges dam may go down in history less as a magnificent feat of engineering than as a folly against the environment. Click here for a Reuters story published in the Sydney Morning Herald, here for The Economist story, here for the New York Times story, and here for the Washington Post story. [Full Text]