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Brazilian court suspends operating license for Belo Monte dam

Glenn Scherer 15 Jan 2016

Mining company executives indicted in Brazil over the country’s largest environmental disaster

Jenny Gonzales 14 Jan 2016

Forest loss increased annually for 25 years at oldest Amazon mega-dam

Claire Salisbury 14 Jan 2016

Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil

Sue Branford 13 Jan 2016

Scientists sound alarm over hydropower’s impacts on tropical fish biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2016

What’s ahead for rainforests in 2016? 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016

Another environmental activist is killed in Peru over his opposition to a major dam project

Ruxandra Guidi 30 Dec 2015

Wildlife catastrophe at Amazon dam a warning for future Tapajós dams

Jennifer Huizen 28 Dec 2015

One of Brazil’s worst environmental crimes brings into question whether the country’s environmental policies are influenced by large mining companies

Renata Leite Pitman 17 Dec 2015

Damming the Amazon: new hydropower projects put river dolphins at risk

Claire Salisbury 15 Dec 2015

Brazilian environmental NGOs depend heavily on corporate money

Jenny Gonzales 1 Dec 2015
Muskrat Falls in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, the future site of the hydroelectric dam. The falls will be flooded in 2017. Photo by Amina Schartup.

New dams may expose Canadian seafood consumers to higher levels of neurotoxin

Emily Benson 23 Nov 2015

Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops

Sue Branford 9 Nov 2015

New research sets doomsday for Indo-Pacific mangroves

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Oct 2015

Indigenous anti-dam activists converge in Sarawak from around the globe

Rod Harbinson 20 Oct 2015

Belo Monte dam denied operating license by Brazilian regulators

Mike Gaworecki 25 Sep 2015

Opponents of Malaysian dam project cautiously optimistic about moratorium

Mike Gaworecki 23 Sep 2015

400+ dams could irrevocably harm Amazon ecology — but solutions exist

Julian Smith 28 Aug 2015

Hundreds of new Amazon dams an “ecological experiment” on global scale

Julian Smith 27 Aug 2015

Cambodian dam proceeds despite opposition over fish, ousted villagers

Rod Harbinson 17 Aug 2015

David & Goliath: Locals resist multinational dams, mines—sometimes win

Saul Elbein 27 Jul 2015

Peru’s ronderos: Persecution of the Marañón patrolmen

Veronica Goyzueta 20 Jul 2015

Jhuliño’s legacy: Life and death on the Marañon River (photo essay)

Saul Elbein 16 Jul 2015

Amazon Headwaters Under Siege: 19 dams slated for Napo watershed

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2015

Mega-dams doing drastic harm to tropical biodiversity: study

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2015

Sarawak can meet energy needs without mega-dams: report

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jul 2015

Damming Dissent: Community leaders behind bars in Guatemala after opposing hydro projects

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jul 2015

Turkish government bears down on rural resistance to mining and hydro projects

Jennifer Hattam 22 Jun 2015

New solidarity in struggle to protect Turkey’s ‘life spaces’

Jennifer Hattam 19 Jun 2015

It can be done! – Building better dams in the Andean Amazon

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 18 Jun 2015

Tapajós and other Amazon dams not sustainable development say reports

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jun 2015

151 dams could be catastrophic to Amazon ecological connectivity

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 10 Jun 2015

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