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Gabon's Dark Side of Dams and Mines

An independent study released this month by Gabonese NGO, Brainforest, documents the devastation caused by uranium and manganese mines in...
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Sigourney Weaver Narrates New Google Earth Animation on Brazil’s Controversial Belo Monte Dam

10-minute Tour in 3-D Highlights the Dam’s Harmful Impacts on Xingu River and Greener Alternatives  Download the tour or view...
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China Takes Another Stab at Resettlement With $62 Billion Water Plan

Originally published in National Geographic News While the residents of Majestic Mansion, a new high-end real estate development on the...
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Victory! India Scraps Large Hydropower Project on the Ganges

For the third year in a row, one of India's most eminent scientists, Professor AD Agarwal, has carried out a...
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Gibe 3: AfDB, EIB out. Who's in?

Ethiopia’s Gibe 3 Dam remains the most destructive dam being built today. According to the official project website, Ethiopia plans...
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Sigourney Weaver Narrates Google Earth Tour of Belo Monte Dam

Tour graphically shows impacts of Belo Monte and 60 other dams planned for Amazon Download the Google Earth Tour (Courtesy...
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Da Vinci and the Art of Water

"The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish…because it draws water as its breath instead of...
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Kyoto's Carbon Offsetting Moves from Tragedy to Farce

The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has long been known to be a honey pot of carbon credit income...
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Indigenous Movement Protests Against the Granting of the Belo Monte Dam Concession in Brasilia

A mobilization against the signing of the Concession for Belo Monte marked the inauguration of the refurbished Presidential Palace on...
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Mixed Grade for Water Diversion Relocation

Originally published in the WSJ Blog China Real Time Report Environmental advocacy group International Rivers gives a mixed grade to...