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Visionary Environmentalist Doug Tompkins Passes Away

Doug Tompkins and his wife Kris in PatagoniaTompkins Conservation Environmental activists in Chile and around the world mourn the passing...
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PR - Brazilian Indigenous Movement Receives Prominent UN Environmental Prize at COP 21 in Paris

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2015 Equator Prize recognizes Munduruku people’s struggle to defend the Amazon from a new wave of...
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Mining Waste Reaches Brazilian Coast Two Weeks After BHP Dam Collapse | The Guardian

This article was first published in The Guardian. Tide is expected to spread along a 5.5-mile stretch of coastline, threatening...
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Maps Project- Potential Flooded Areas of Dams in the Magdalena River

Potential Flooded Areas of Dams in the Magdalena River by International Rivers Explanations of Maps and Analysis      ...
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Two killed after dams burst at Brazil iron mine, many missing | Reuters

Dam break at Mariana, BrazilReuters (See the original Reuters story here.) At least two people were killed and 30 others...
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Dam the Puelo River Basin? No Way!

Puelo River BasinAndres Amengual I’ve just returned from visiting the Tagua Tagua Park, which borders the beautiful blue-green waters of...
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Zombie Dams: Five Projects That Just. Won’t. Die.

zom·bie dam /ˈzämbē dam/ noun 1. A proposed dam project that activists successfully halt before it’s built, only to see...
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Chileans Stand to Defend the Maipo River

Yeso River, tributary of the Maipo River.Monti Aguirre From the high, icy glaciers of the Andes Mountains, the waters of...
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Chixoy Reparations at Last: Checks Are In

Teodora Chen, massacre survivor, receives the first check for reparations.La Prensa Libre A ceremony to honor Mother Earth was the...
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The Many Faults of El Quimbo Dam

Protesting El Quimbo DamPolinizacionesIn June of this year, dam builders began filling the reservoir behind El Quimbo Dam in Colombia....