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

Gary Lee | Sarinee Achavanuntakul | Eugene Simonov 9 Jul 2021
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

Former dam executive found guilty in the killing of Berta Cáceres

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2021

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

Tiffany Higgins 23 Jun 2021
Construction of Belo Monte Dam, on the Xingu river, Belo Monte Site. Altamira, Pará, Brazil. Credit line: © Carol Quintanilha / Greenpeace

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

Philip M. Fearnside 21 Jun 2021

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

Juliana Ennes 14 Jun 2021
Asian black bear

Irrigation dams threaten Thailand’s tiger forests, say conservationists

Carolyn Cowan 14 Jun 2021
The "Stop the Chop Protest" in Miri, Sarawak against Malaysian forestry company Samling in October 2020. Photo credit: The Borneo Project

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jun 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

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

Tiffany Higgins 8 Mar 2021

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

Karlston Lapniten 26 Feb 2021
A Panamanian golden toad. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Indigenous community wins recognition of its land rights in Panama

John Cannon 17 Feb 2021

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

Jun N. Aguirre 8 Feb 2021

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

Carolyn Cowan 11 Jan 2021

Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Dec 2020

Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment

Tiffany Higgins 16 Dec 2020

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Ana Ionova 17 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Oct 2020
Boy with a 'dorado' catfish. Photo by Michael Goulding.

Why the health of the Amazon River matters to us all: An interview with Michael Goulding

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2020

Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2020

Infrastructure plans imperil Latin America’s forests: Analysis

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2020

Indonesia dam builder refuses new study to assess impact on orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Aug 2020

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

Rafael Duarte 18 Aug 2020

Ecuador races for emergency infrastructure as river’s collapse threatens dam

Antonio José Paz Cardona 11 Aug 2020

Deforestation in the Amazon is drying up the rest of Brazil: Report

Sibélia Zanon 7 Aug 2020
Angohó Ha-ha-hãe is a shaman and one of the leaders of Naô Xohã indigenous village, which is requesting to be temporarily relocated by Vale due to the river pollution. Image by Luiz Guilherme Fernandes for Mongabay

Mining industry releases first standard to improve safety of waste storage

Ian Morse 6 Aug 2020

More than 500 dams planned inside protected areas: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Aug 2020

Dam that threatens orangutan habitat faces three-year delay

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2020

Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’

Peter Speetjens 13 Jul 2020

Traditional villages dread living in shadow of Amazon tailings dams

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 9 Jul 2020

Brazil could dynamite Amazon dolphin, turtle habitat for industrial waterway

Tiffany Higgins 2 Jul 2020

Experts see environmental, social fallout in Indonesia’s infrastructure push

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2020

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