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Through dense smog one can make out the shape of the Three Gorges dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, that spans China's Yangtze River.
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Workers toil to strengthen a slope above a road snaking along a mountain slope high above the Yangtze River and the Three Gorges reservoir.
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A worker looks out from a roadside above the Yangtze River where work crews attempt to stabilize a slope to avoid landslides.
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Farmer Du Chengcai stands near a spot where a crack opened in the ground following a partial landslide in Miaohe, a village near the Three Gorges dam.
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Farmer Du Chengcai, 28, and his grandmother, Han Yunzhen, holding Du's son, stand outside a damaged home in Miaohe, an area that is now threatened by landslides.
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Ferries that cross the Yangtze River reservoir above the Three Gorges dam carry all sorts of passengers and merchandise, including the bundled tree bark visible on the deck.
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A motorcyclist prepares to cross the Yangtze River aboard a ferry. Ferries above the Three Gorges dam carry pedestrians, motorcycles, cars and trucks.
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A motorcyclist's load of chickens for a market across the Yangtze River.
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Sixty-year-old Qu Wanfu is angry that she must relocate from her village of Miaohe high above the Yangtze River.
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Farmer Qu Wanfu stands on a slope in the village of Miaohe. The Three Gorges dam nearby has destabilized mountain slopes in the area.
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Villagers in Miaohe, China, Du Chengcai, left, and Han Yong, are uneasy about plans to move their settlement further away from the Yangtze River.
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A former forestry service official, Han Yundang says he doesn't have enough savings to pay for a new house to replace the one damaged by a landslide in Miaohe, China, last April.
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A worker labors to build brick homes in the new site of Miaohe village, China. The village is being relocated away from the Yangtze River, where landslides threaten its existence.
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