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Belo Monte dam compensation inadequate, say traditional fisherfolk

Zoe Sullivan 9 Sep 2016

Controversial dams on 5 Chilean rivers scrapped after years of campaign

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Sep 2016

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Sue Branford 26 Aug 2016

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Claire Salisbury 23 Aug 2016

Promised US$1 billion in Belo Monte dam compensation largely unpaid?

Carolina Torres 12 Aug 2016
Google Earth image showing the site for the São Luiz do Tapajós dam.

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Sue Branford 4 Aug 2016

India floods kill more than 200 animals, including rare rhinos

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Aug 2016

Tapajós dams may bring fish kills, species loss, mercury contamination

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 2 Aug 2016

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Claire Salisbury 12 Jul 2016

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 5 Jul 2016

64 dead in Indonesia landslides as La Nina brings heavy rains

Indra Nugraha, Lusia Arumingtyas 27 Jun 2016

Amazonian catfish’s 5,000-mile migration endangered by dams

Claire Salisbury 21 Jun 2016

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Sue Branford 6 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016

Dams flood 36,000 hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2016

Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers, threatens local farmers

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 19 May 2016

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 17 May 2016

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Claire Salisbury 13 May 2016

Ethics, sustainability, and Amazon hydropower: mission impossible?

Claire Salisbury 4 May 2016

Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

Claire Salisbury 22 Apr 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Sue Branford 14 Mar 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2016

Aceh citizens ask governor to keep bulldozers out of a crucial rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Feb 2016

From fires to floods: Indonesia’s disaster agency prepares for rain

Mongabay Haze Beat 17 Nov 2015

Cambodian dam proceeds despite opposition over fish, ousted villagers

Rod Harbinson 17 Aug 2015

Rising seas, sinking peat to swamp Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil

Erik Meijaard 13 Jun 2015

Record heat in Antarctica

Mongabay.com 29 Mar 2015

River flooding to affect 40M people annually by 2030

Loren Bell 11 Mar 2015

Illegal logging contributed to deadly Malaysian floods, according to government minister

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2015

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