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The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

Brazil’s Sinop Dam flouts environmental legislation (Commentary)

Protests flare as pressure mounts on dam project in orangutan habitat

Financiers to discuss hydropower as climate-change mitigation, but dams are not ‘clean energy’ (commentary)

Allegation of forged signature casts shadow over China-backed dam in Sumatra

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Colombia’s disaster-ridden hydropower project runs second largest river dry

New appointments, new policies don’t bode well for Brazilian Amazon

Bolsonaro government reveals plan to develop the ‘Unproductive Amazon’

Of concrete and corruption: Resistance kills Andes Amazon dams

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Dam drove ‘collapse’ of rainforest bird populations in Thailand

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Santo Antônio mega-dam on Brazil’s Madeira River disrupts local lives

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts

New dam set to spoil Sumatran wonderland (commentary)

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Study warns of dire ecological, social fallout from Sumatran dam

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Jair Bolsonaro: looming threat to the Amazon and global climate?

Fate of the Amazon is on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election (commentary)

Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment (commentary)

Dam project pushes threatened orangutans from forest to farms

Brazilian elections and the environment: where top candidates stand

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

Fight to protect the world’s most threatened great ape goes to court

Laos dam collapse highlights global hydropower amnesia (commentary)

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