At the landfill, small craters and blackened earth marked the damage done by the Specter.
Having earned over $600 million in domestic sales, "The Wandering Earth" marks a major achievement for the country's film industry.
What is taking shape in the rocky earth, marked by centuries of conquest and development, is as contested as the neighborhood of Arabs and Jews encircling the excavation.
Dead and buried, up on a ridge, in graves that bulged from the frozen earth, marked with a single unadorned stone.
What she saw was a flat stony city, house after house under humped ripples of earth, marked by flat stones, standing stones, canted stones, fallen stones, soot-stained, dropping-stained, scum-stained, crumbled, carved, repeating, repeating.
Yet in one corner, on an open plot covered with poppies, lie three dozen graves lined up at a diagonal to the rest: simple mounds of earth, marked by wooden stakes in the ground.
Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group and other international organizations to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve global warming.
At about 6 in the evening I began to see the first structures atop the cliff: struts and girders poking from the clay, slippages of fresh earth marking the sign of recent falls, and sometimes sticking out from these, prosaic detritus: a sheet of galvanized iron, a roll of linoleum, a course of red bricks still mortared together -- all of it instant archaeology.
People who walk across intersections while staring at their phones, or who use route guidance to get home from work even though they've practically carved a path in the earth marking the shortest route.
They painted bright orange arrows away from the road, aiming north into the shrubs at places where the remains were found, and stuck fluorescent orange flags into the earth to mark it off.
