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How Dams Can Bring About Rainfalls and Drought
It is undisputed that dams can influence local rainfalls. Humidity evaporates from reservoirs and irrigated fields and gets recycled as...
As Tensions Rise, Controversial Belo Monte Dam Faces New Legal Challenge
Federal Public Prosecutors allege 40% of social and environmental conditions have not been met by project consortium Brasilia, Brazil –...
Doubts, Protests Prevail in Belo Monte
Brazil's environmental agency IBAMA stepped further into controversy last week when it granted Belo Monte Dam consortium Norte Energia a...
Where Rivers Run Free
Policy Tools to Protect Free-Flowing Rivers ree-flowing rivers have become so rare that they would be classified as an endangered...
Environmental Flow Policies: Moving Beyond Good Intentions
river's flow is its heartbeat. Few human influences are more deadly to freshwater ecosystems than alteration of natural hydrological rhythms....
Taking Action in India on Downstream Impacts of Dams
ndia is on a large-dam building spree, with more than 5,100 large dams already blocking almost all of its important...
The Long Road to River Recovery
he most iconic dam-removal campaigns in the western United States are advancing, slowly but surely. The lesson from these efforts...
Watching the River Flow
ivers are often called the planet’s circulatory system. Like our body’s circulation system, the planetary one doesn’t work very well...
The Dying Sea
The images in this narrative describe the aftermath of one of the largest environmental disasters man has perpetrated – the...
New Lawsuit Against Belo Monte Questions IBAMA License
Translated from Portuguese: read the original version in Portuguese. The new lawsuit in Federal Court, the 11th against the Belo...