image: Geotextile tube seawall in Rudong, Jiangsu Province, China. Most of the world population of the critically-endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) stage along this coast. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 21, 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Z. Ma at Ministry of Education in Shanghai, China, and colleagues was titled, 'Rethinking China's new great wall.' view more
Credit: [Credit: David Melville]