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Death of last river dolphin in Laos rings alarm bells for Mekong population

Dams on Brazil’s Jamanxim River: The advancing assault on the environment and Indigenous peoples in the Tapajós basin (commentary)

Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report

AI model shows how Amazon dams can be made less environmentally damaging

Crackdown on villagers highlights heavy hand of Indonesia’s ‘strategic’ projects

Déjà vu for Indigenous villagers in Brazil as floods leave them homeless again

In Bolivia, Indigenous groups fear the worst from dam project on Beni River

China’s building spree in Nepal casts shadow over Himalayan ecosystem

Holy loach! Fish missing for decades rediscovered in Turkey’s Batman River

In Laos, a ‘very dangerous dam’ threatens an ancient world heritage site

‘Unequal exchange’ for Brazil community in shadow of Anglo American mine

New transport infrastructure is opening the Amazon to global commerce

Railroad and mine projects stir up anxiety in rural Brazil communities

Vale told Brazil communities they were in danger. They say Vale wants their land

New map identifies risks, and potential sanctuaries, for Brazil’s diving duck

Dam builder denies responsibility as logjam chokes river in Malaysian Borneo

Cambodian dam a ‘disaster’ for local communities, rights group says

Planned dam in Philippine national park catches flak from activists, officials

Study puts 2050 deadline on tipping point for Mekong Delta salinity

Our World Heritage is deeply tied to rivers and they need protection from dams (commentary)

Former dam executive found guilty in the killing of Berta Cáceres

Amazon dams: No clean water, fish dying, then the pandemic came

Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam: Struggle for the Volta Grande enters a new phase (Commentary)

After two collapses, a third Vale dam at ‘imminent risk of rupture’

Irrigation dams threaten Thailand’s tiger forests, say conservationists

‘Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes’, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader

Rivers can be climate change solutions, too (commentary)

Amazon’s Belo Monte dam cuts Xingu River flow 85%; a crime, Indigenous say

‘The river will bleed red’: Indigenous Filipinos face down dam projects

Indigenous community wins recognition of its land rights in Panama

Indigenous leaders killed in Philippines were ‘red-tagged’ over dam opposition

Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest

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