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Banner image of St. Bernard's Church in Ireland following Storm Éowyn, by Riversting via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Explosive ‘bomb cyclone’ pummels Europe, hitting UK hardest

Kristine Sabillo 28 Jan 2025
Behind Mario Luna Romero, a Yaqui spokesperson and water defender is the Plutarco Elías Calles (El Novillo) on the left and the Independencia Aqueduct on the right. Image by Abimael Ochoa Hernández.

Despite court ruling, Yaqui water rights abuses ignored

Aimee Gabay 10 Oct 2024
A fisherman feeds his net into the Mekong River on the Thai-Lao border by Chiang Saen.

On heavily dammed Mekong, tracking study tries to find where the fish are going

Anton L. Delgado 24 Jul 2024
Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 28 Jun 2024
The sprawling Stung Meteuk hydropower dam being developed in the Cardamom Mountains appears to be illegally logging within Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 27 Jun 2024
Farming in Myanmar

Will the Mekong and Salween pay the price of China’s energy transition?

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2024
Mekong River

Hydropower in doubt as climate impacts Mekong Basin water availability

Carolyn Cowan 21 Feb 2024

Ahead of polls, Nepal’s political parties, voters take heed of climate impacts

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Nov 2022
The biodiversity of Balkan rivers is now becoming more widely known, and also their beauty, such as Kravice Waterfall in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Photo by Goran Safarek in 2014 for Riverwatch/EuroNatur.

Science that saves free-flowing rivers & rich biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 19 Oct 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022
Cambodia's fisheries and food security are at stake as dams continue to blight the Mekong River

Cambodian mega dam’s resurrection on the Mekong ‘the beginning of the end’

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 15 Sep 2022
The Sekong River is a key tributary for the Mekong River.

In the Mekong Basin, an ‘unnecessary’ dam poses an outsized threat

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 14 Sep 2022

Climate change hits northern Mexico, as officials look to solve water crisis

Maxwell Radwin 31 Aug 2022
Detroit Dam in Oregon

The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem?

Petro Kotzé 21 Apr 2022

As climate-driven drought slams farms in U.S. West, water solutions loom

Saul Elbein 17 Dec 2021
The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Rivers can be climate change solutions, too (commentary)

Michele Thieme 30 Mar 2021

Are biomass and hydropower ‘false’ climate solutions?

Mike Gaworecki 10 Feb 2021

In Brazil, human action and climate change are drowning a community

Rafael Duarte 18 Aug 2020

Communities on Brazil’s ‘River of Unity’ tested by dams, climate change

Sarah Sax 2 Jun 2020

Indonesian dam raises questions about UN hydropower carbon loophole

Justin Catanoso 12 Dec 2019

It’s time for Climate Bonds Initiative to scrap its hydro certification scheme (commentary)

Josh Klemm 10 Dec 2019

Amazon’s giant South American river turtle holding its own, but risks abound

Jenny Gonzales 6 Dec 2019

From flaming to free-flowing: The full lesson of the recovery of the Cuyahoga River (commentary)

Jeff Opperman 21 Jun 2019

No need to dam free-flowing rivers to meet world’s climate and energy targets

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

Two-thirds of Earth’s longest rivers no longer free-flowing

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2019

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

Liz Kimbrough 5 Mar 2019

Brazil’s Sinop Dam flouts environmental legislation (Commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 1 Mar 2019

Financiers to discuss hydropower as climate-change mitigation, but dams are not ‘clean energy’ (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 26 Feb 2019

The true story of how 96 critically endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived New York City

Mike Gaworecki 11 Dec 2018

Extreme floods on the rise in the Amazon: study

Claire Asher 5 Dec 2018

The superb mimicry skills of an Australian songbird

Mike Gaworecki 21 Aug 2018

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