Developers are building in a more eco-conscious manner, constructing homes in areas where well water is available and incorporating water-saving plants into the landscape.

WSJ: High Water Marks

Rivers, rapids and waterfalls are another natural feature of the nation's natural landscape that can be tapped as a source for hydro-electricity plants.

BBC: Attempting to 'kick the carbon habit'

Heading inland again, 150km from Guerrero Negro towards the small town of San Ignacio, the landscape becomes more desert-like and some of the stranger desert plants, like the boojum tree, make an appearance.

BBC: Driving from the top to the tip of Baja California

Tibetan health-care traditions and their links to landscape and culture are central to the medicinal plants conservation programme supported in Shey Phoksundo National Park in the alpine meadows of the Eastern Himalaya, Nepal.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

But Ragnarsson says Iceland's volcanic landscape is a world treasure and should not be criss-crossed with steam pipes and transmission lines or pocked with power plants.

NPR: Lured by Clean Energy, Industry Heads for Iceland