It still encompasses the essential sounds, sights and atmosphere of China, including
visits to the Panda
Breeding Research Centre, the Terracotta Warriors, the
Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and Tian An Men Square.
She first
visited the Alaskan Arctic in 2001, and will return to the North Slope this spring and
summer to continue a wildfire - mapping project and to set up a field study that will look at how warming - induced changes are affecting migratory songbirds that
breed on the tundra each
summer.