num_pages: 119
description: How can you make sense of the enormous scale of Chinas environmental problems? With a delightfully affable and knowledgeable personal guide. Through beautiful images and engaging storytelling award-winning photojournalist Sean Gallagher takes readers on a tour through China to places both familiar  like big megalopolises  and hidden such as ancient cities wiped off the map by desertification. Gallagher captures everything from the lifestyle of nomadic herders of Tibet and some of Chinas iconic animals and landscapes before they may disappear forever. Four chaptersone each on wetlands forests desertification and the Tibetan Plateaumove you 10000 miles through China from delta to glacier. Multimedia features including maps and videos allow readers to can see China as Gallagher does  beautiful and endangered.Kirkus Reviews: A sobering glimpse into Chinas environmental degradation matched with stirring photography of whats threatened.
language: English
title: Meltdown: China's Environment Crisis
publisher: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting