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PR – Massive Corruption Scandal Implicates Brazil’s Amazon Dam Builders
Testimony from jailed operators of Petrobras scandal point to similar corruption scheme involving politicians and major construction firms FOR IMMEDIATE...
PR – Siemens Linked to Major Rights Abuses Across Americas
German Technology Giant Confronted With Proof of Wrongdoing at Annual Shareholder Meeting Munich, Germany: Dozens of protestors from a...
Twelve Dams That Changed the World
The iconic Hoover Dam. Wikimedia commons Dams illustrate the brilliance and arrogance of human ingenuity. They generate one sixth of...
Brazil Lawsuits Aim to Impede Authorization of Water Use Rights for Dam Developers
Tapajós RiverPhoto by International Rivers Reproduced with permission from Water Law & Policy Monitor, 2014 WLPM (Nov. 27, 2014). Copyright 2014...
PR – Amazon Assembly Unifies Resistance to Dams on Brazil's Tapajós River
Historic gathering builds opposition to government’s plans for new mega-dam complex Munduruku warriors and children arrive at São Luiz do...
Healing Begins for the Maya Achi People of Guatemala
Portrait of Carlos Chen at the Pacux resettlement village in the outskirts of Rabinal.Photo by James A. Rodríguez/MiMundo.org. Cannot be...
Opponents of Planned Colombian Dams Take Heart From OAS Report
Article orginally published in the Los Angeles Times Pericongo Canyon on Colombia’s Magdalena River would be inundated if a Chinese...
PR – Defying Brazilian Government, Indigenous Group Demarcates Amazonian Territory
Munduruku people ‘auto-demarcate’ lands threatened by Tapajós River megadams FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Brasilia, Brazil: In response to the Rousseff government’s...
Guest Blog – Saving Santiago's Watershed from Business as Usual
Social leaders, students and representatives from NGOs march against Alto Maipo on August 2Photo Credit: Coordinadora Ciudadana Ríos del Maipo...
Climate Change: There is No Plan B, Because There is No Planet B
Article written by Javiera Espinoza, a Chilean geographer and environmental advocate with Fundación Terram. This article originally appeared in Spanish in...