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Stop Plans to Construct the Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Project
Ratanakiri – Cambodia The Sesan, Srepok and Sekong Rivers Network Protection (Sesan, Sekong, Srepok) was established in October, 2001 after...
Judge Suspends Dam in the Amazon
Saves Falls Sacred to Indigenous Peoples A federal judge in Brazil has suspended the construction license of the Teles Pires...
Judge Suspends Construction License for Controversial Teles Pires Dam in the Brazilian Amazon
Public Prosecutors and Federal Judge cite violations of indigenous peoples’ rights, guaranteed by Brazilian Constitution and international law Brasilia, Brazil...
Climate Change and African Rivers
Africa has been deemed “the continent most vulnerable to the impacts of projected climate change” by the UN Intergovernmental Panel...
China to Flood Nature Reserve with Latest Yangtze Dam
China’s Three Gorges Corp. on Thursday marked the beginning of construction for a dam that will flood the last free-flowing...
Brahmaputra/Yarlung Tsangpo
The Brahmaputra River is one of the last largely free-flowing rivers emanating from the Tibetan Plateau. Originating as the Yarlung...
China's Major Rivers
Dammed, diverted and polluted, China’s rivers are reaching an ecological tipping point. Today there are more than 25,800 large dams...
Climate Finance
International financial institutions are increasingly turning to climate finance as a way to fund the huge costs of large dams....
Big Dreams, Small (and Clever) Projects
From March 2012 World Rivers Review Oliver Kopsch is a clean-energy enabler. His company, DecRen Water Consult (DWC), based in...
Land Grabs: Trampling Human Rights and Land in Uganda
A guest blog from the communications officer at the National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) in Uganda. Some foreign investment...