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Reservoirs May Produce 20 Times More Methane Than Normal During Water ‘Drawdown’
Holloway Reservoir Dam in Michigan, USPhoto: Sentrawoods via Flickr Originally published on Climate Progress Typically, at moderate sizes, power generated by...
Dam Drawdown an Overlooked "Global Warming Culprit"
Marshes in the drawdown area of the Three Gorges Reservoir could be a significant source of methane. Photo: Wikimedia Commons...
World Heritage Committee Decisions in 2012
Fishing boat by Lake Turkana Below are summaries of all the decisions made on dam-threatened World Heritage Sites that were...
Declaration on the Myth of Destructive Dams as Clean Energy and the Urgent Need to Protect Rivers
Healthy rivers provide clean water essential for life on Earth. Following the Rio+20 Earth Summit’s failure to recognize the irreversible...
Will Safeguards Survive the Next Generation of Development Finance?
Governments depend on a variety of international institutions to advance development goals, ranging from the multilateral World Bank and United...
Proving Sustainability in the Dam Industry
Dr. Refaat Abdel-Malek, President of the International Hydropower Association at the 2011 IHA World Congress Sustainability is all the rage...
Event and Engagement Intern – Summer 2012
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them. We work to stop destructive dams...
Rivers at Risk: Dam Boom Threatens A World of Rivers
From June 2012 World Rivers Review See the full map 1. Dams support unsustainable industries: Iceland uses more energy per...
No Surprises in G-20 Declaration, Progress Report
G-20 leaders settled on an uneventful final declaration in Los Cabos. Tuesday’s G-20 Leaders’ Declaration, and a progress report from...
Rivers May Lose Out in the "Green Economy"
The Congo River, at the Grand Inga site, from space. It’s an unenviable position to attempt to reconcile the interests...