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...BEATEN TRACK The Wachau region, just an hour and a half from Vienna, boasts beautiful vineyards perched on steep hills falling into the Danube River. Stay at Hotel Schloss Dürnstein (43-271-12-12; schloss.at) for a King Richard the Lionhearted experience...
...China this summer, and I saw blue skies for an entire week. I took a trip to the north of Harbin, a major city several hours from Beijing, and stopped at the Heilong River just south of the Russia-China border. I saw my own reflection in a stream and drank from a spring without contracting diarrhea. I also climbed an observation tower and saw miles and miles of virgin forests...
...thing, America is still booming after the excesses of the Industrial Revolution. By some comparisons, China is in better shape—none of its rivers have yet managed to catch on fire like the Cuyahoga, a river so polluted from America’s rise to industrial power that it actually sustained flames. China is also more proactive about the environmental impact of growth. The Communist Party has required that the same economic growth be achieved in 2010 using 20 percent less energy than in 2005. For the same time period, the government has also mandated that mercury, sulfur...
...Embassy Suites Hotel on the River, 101 East Locust Street, (515) 244-1700 Holiday Inn Express at Drake, 1140 24th Street...
...region bigger and more frequent. That's bad news for Bangladesh, whose location and geography makes it not only particularly susceptible to the effects of climate change but also extremely hard to protect. Most of Bangladesh sits on the giant alluvial delta created by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, whose courses are constantly shifting, making it difficult to build up river banks to protect farmland. A World Bank project, backed by France, Japan and the U.S., would construct 8,000 km of dikes to control the rivers, but the $10 billion proposal has run into opposition from farmers whose land...