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Google Earth animation shows Brazilian plans to turn Amazon into ‘series of stagnant reservoirs’

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Aug 2010

146 dams threaten Amazon basin

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2010

Indigenous tribes occupy dam in Brazil, demand reparations

Jeremy Hance 27 Jul 2010

Environmentalists and indigenous groups condemn plan for six dams in Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 21 Jun 2010

‘Prepare for war’: tensions rising over Brazil’s controversial Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 25 May 2010

Off and on again: Belo Monte dam goes forward, protests planned

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2010

Brazil suspends Amazon dam project targeted by Avatar director

Mongabay.com 15 Apr 2010

Film Director James Cameron’s Next Film on the Amazon

Nikolas Kozloff 5 Apr 2010

Environmentalists and indigenous groups decry approval of massive dam in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2010

Malaysia and China agree to $11 billion deal to build mines, dams in Borneo

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2010

Efforts to slow climate change may put indigenous people at risk

Mongabay.com 24 Nov 2009

Blackout in Brazil: Hydropower and Our Climate Conundrum

Senorchicheronikolas Kozloff 19 Nov 2009

Will Brazil’s blackout drive a new push for more rainforest dams?

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2009

Power, profit, and pollution: dams and the uncertain future of Sarawak

Kara Moses 3 Sep 2009

Little hydroelectric dams become all the rage, but do they harm the environment?

Jeremy Hance 23 Aug 2009

Political infighting in Brazil threatens the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2009

Dams in Laos threaten Asia’s largest waterfall, critically endangered river dolphin

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2009

France’s Suez liable for illegal deforestation, “dynamite fishing” in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2009

Brazil OKs $4 billion dam in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2008

Carbon market may fund dam in Panama that threatens natural reserve

Jeremy Hance 1 Sep 2008

Secret power plan would devastate Sarawak’s rainforest with 12 new hydropower plants

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2008

Gore launches second campaign… for Earth

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2008

Will earthquake slow dam-building spree in China?

Mongabay.com 14 May 2008

46% of Brazil’s energy comes from renewable sources

Mongabay.com 13 May 2008

Judge suspends Amazon dam project due to legal questions

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2008

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