Joy as China shelves plans to dam 'angry river'

Environmentalists celebrate as Beijing appears to abandon plans to build a series of giant hydroelectric dams on the 1,750-mile NujiangEnvironmentalists in China are celebrating after controversial plans to build a series of giant hydroelectric dams on the country’s last free-flowing river were shelved.
Activists have spent more than a decade campaigning to protect the Nujiang, or “angry river”, from a cascade of dams, fearing they would displace tens of thousands of people and