Between the Broadsheets

China will start backing up its shrinking glaciers with 59 meltwater reservoirs this year, as the cost of climate change hits home in the world's most populous nation. The far west region of Xinjiang, home to many of the planet's highest peaks and widest ice fields, will carry out the 10-year engineering project, which aims to catch and store glacier run-off that might otherwise trickle away into the desert - The Guardian