Monday, August 10, 2015

Making new land...

What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea ran in the NYT on 31 July 2015 - the animation at the top is great. If only we could gain access to satellite images like that...

Below is an image from the Daily Overview showing one of the new islands ("Mischief Reef") connected to surrounding by dredgers pumping sediment from the ocean floor onto the reef to make it larger.




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