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Traffic on Nepal's highway

Still no sweet spot in 2024 for Nepal in balancing conservation & development

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Dec 2024
Protesters in Thailand

Thai citizens protest plans for Mekong dam amid transboundary concerns

Carolyn Cowan 10 Dec 2024
Indigenous women look at their living space disappear to become Lambo Dam.

Dam displaces farmers as drought parches Indonesia’s Flores Island

Moh. Tamimi 19 Nov 2024
Drought-stricken river in the Capoto-Jarina Indigenous Territory in the Upper Xingu region of Mato Grosso on September 12th, 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace

Brazil dredges Amazon rivers to ease drought isolation, raising environmental concerns

Amanda Magnani 1 Oct 2024
In July 2024, forest activists uncovered a timber depot and sawmills at the site of the Stung Meteuk hydropower project. Image supplied by Tat Oudom.

Cambodian environment minister bans logging at tycoon’s Cardamoms hydropower project

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 30 Sep 2024
Flooding in Thailand

Record-breaking floods in northern Thailand intensify scrutiny of Mekong dam project

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2024

Philippines hydro boom rips Indigenous communities

Michael Beltran 18 Sep 2024

Malaysian court shuts down hydroelectric dam project on Indigenous land

Ashley Yeong 12 Sep 2024
A yak pasture in the Lungbasamba landscape.

Reporting confirms alleged Indigenous rights violations in Nepal hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo and Latoya Abulu 12 Aug 2024

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024
A fisherman feeds his net into the Mekong River on the Thai-Lao border by Chiang Saen.

On heavily dammed Mekong, tracking study tries to find where the fish are going

Anton L. Delgado 24 Jul 2024

Global migratory freshwater fish populations plummet by 81%: Report

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2024
Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 28 Jun 2024
The sprawling Stung Meteuk hydropower dam being developed in the Cardamom Mountains appears to be illegally logging within Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 27 Jun 2024
Farming in Myanmar

Will the Mekong and Salween pay the price of China’s energy transition?

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2024
Xayaburi Dam

Banks backing Mekong hydropower failing on due diligence, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 20 May 2024
Rescue efforts in the aftermath of the GLOF event in Sikkim on October 4. Photo by Press Information Bureau, Government of India.

Multilateral development banks must prioritize clean & community-led energy projects (commentary)

Alessandro Ramazzotti/Vaishnavi Varadarajan/Anggita Indari 1 May 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024

Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2024

Mato Grosso shelves environmental license application for Amazon dam

Leandro Barbosa 4 Apr 2024
Mekong River

Hydropower in doubt as climate impacts Mekong Basin water availability

Carolyn Cowan 21 Feb 2024

Brazil’s 2024-2027 “Transversal Environmental Agenda”: The elephants in the room (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 Feb 2024
Members of communities in Baram and Mulu with the petition.

Sarawak government’s hydropower plans worry Indigenous communities

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 2 Feb 2024
An adult and juvenile gharial on a riverbank.

Conservation ‘setback’ looms as Nepal opens protected areas to hydropower projects

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Jan 2024
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Nepal’s birds pay cost for country’s infrastructure development

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Dec 2023
An aerial view over the Central Cardamoms National Park, one of several protected areas that constitute the Cardamom Mountains, an evergreen forest situated on the Thai-Cambodia border. In November 2023, the Cambodian government approved the construction of two new hydropower dams in the protected forest. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn 20 Dec 2023
Rice farmers in Vietnam

Dam-building on Mekong poses risk to regional industries, report says

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2023
Maman Ajo makes a living selling boats.

Java farmers displaced by dam remain treading water after decades

Donny Iqbal 8 Nov 2023
Ruddy ducks in East Rapti River next to the protected Chitwan National Park.

Conservationists condemn Nepal proposal to allow hydropower in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Oct 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Tapajós Basin and the prevalence of Indigenous rights

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Belo Monte and the Río Xingu

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Aug 2023

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Guri complex and the Caroni Cascade

Timothy J. Killeen 11 Aug 2023

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