Counterintuitive: Global hydropower boom will add to climate change

From the Amazon Basin to boreal forests, and from the Mekong to the Himalayan foothills, rivers worldwide are being targeted for major new dams in a global hydropower boom that also aims to supply drinking water to exploding human populations and to facilitate navigation on the planet’s rivers; 3,700 new dams — 847 of them … Continue reading Counterintuitive: Global hydropower boom will add to climate change