It's hard to top the holy shit news that Antarctica is, as we've long feared, irreversibly melting,

It's hard to top the holy shit news that Antarctica is, as we've long feared, irreversibly melting , but this week's Landscape Reads is chock full of other great stories. Could the difference between rice and wheat farming also explain cultural differences? (By the way, those are rice terraces above!) What's a 19th-century map doing in Minecraft? Is China's coal addiction going to fuck us all?