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Honduras Communities Explore Small Hydro Development
From March 2010 World Rivers Review No one knows for sure if the idea of a community-owned small hydropower project...
Belo Monte Fact Sheet
Massive Dam Project Strikes at the Heart of the Amazon The Brazilian government is planning to build what would be...
El Salvador's El Cimarron Dam Cancelled
Reprieve for Central America's Longest River Belching heavy clouds of diesel, a line of old US yellow school buses crossed...
Chinese Dams In Hot Water
The Clean Development Mechanism's Executive Board (EB), which approves and rejects projects applying for emissions reductions credits, just ended their...
Third Suspension for HidroAysén Environmental Review
HidroAysén is an Italian-Chilean joint venture to build 5 dams on the biggest and wildest rivers in Patagonia. The environmental...
California Climate Legislation and Offsets
While there has been a lot of attention on whether Washington will pass climate legislation soon, the state of California...
Brazil: Don't Shove Belo Monte Down Our Throats!
Zachary Hurwitz Guest blog by Zachary Hurwitz. Zach is a former International Rivers intern in Brazil with a Masters degree...
Dams and Extinction: Going, Going, Gone
In a reversal of the animated movie Madagascar, all of the world's Kihansi spray toads suddenly found themselves living in...
US Companies Favoring Efficiency Over Offsets
A few years ago, the latest green(wash) rage among the rich and famous was offsetting carbon emissions from air travel...
CDM Auditing Process Cheats the Climate
Investigative reporter Mark Schapiro's most recent article, "Conning the Climate" provides an inside look into how Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)...