Weekly environmental news, May 19-25

China’s Three Gorges Dam complete [Washington Post], picture gallery [BBC]
Earth could be warming faster than expected [Reuters]
Drift of jet streams could be causing deserts to grow [LiveScience]
Kyoto countries looking at plans for post-2012 [Reuters]
An Inconvenient Truth: fact or fiction? [National Geographic]
MIT developing new technology for turning light into electricity [MIT]
WWF: Fish species being driven to extinction by illegal fishing [BBC]
Aircraft carrier intentionally sunk to create artificial reef [MSNBC]
Construction on mall that runs on renewable energy given go-ahead [MSNBC]
Southeast Asian task forces to fight illegal trade of animals and plants [Reuters]