The link between widespread industrial activity and global warming has long been on the world’s list of worries, but now there’s concern that a single construction project–the Three Gorges Dam in China–could cause regional warming hundreds of miles away in Japan.
Map of eastern Asia shows the flow of ocean currents (red arrows) into and out of the Japan Sea.
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