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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
Smoke from a factory chimney.

How nonprofit journalism revealed many problems with the UN’s climate neutrality claims

Mike DiGirolamo 10 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

Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: A shift toward reduced impact facilities, but the controversy continues

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Aug 2023

Nepal’s hydropower boom is killing birds via power lines

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 May 2023
A trefoil horseshoe bat

Flooding for hydropower dams hits forest-reliant bats hard, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2023
Huge logs are delivered daily to the Koh Kong provincial prison in Cambodia

Forest behind bars: Logging network operating out of Cambodian prison in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 26 May 2023
A yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), known locally as tracajá, a species that is of cultural importance for the Juruna.

Second chance for Lula as controversial Amazon dam goes up for renewal

Dimitri Selibas 18 May 2023
Mekong giant catfish

‘Chasing giants’: Q&A with megafish biologist and author Zeb Hogan

Carolyn Cowan 9 May 2023

Meet the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 24 Apr 2023

World’s newest great ape faces habitat loss, multiple threats: Will it survive?

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Apr 2023
Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia.

Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams

Carolyn Cowan 30 Mar 2023
Fishers pull in nets on Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia

As hydropower dams quell the Mekong’s life force, what are the costs?

Carolyn Cowan 29 Mar 2023

In Sumatra, increased orangutan sightings point to growing threats to the apes

Hans Nicholas Jong, Tonggo Simangunsong 1 Mar 2023
The Enawenê-Nawê Indigenous people.

Series of small dams pose big cumulative risk to Amazon’s fish and people

Sarah Brown 3 Jan 2023
Karama River

Sulawesi hydropower dam could flood important archaeological sites

Agus Mawan 14 Dec 2022
A green lizard.

Threatened cloud forests key to billions of dollars worth of hydropower: Report

John Cannon 13 Dec 2022

Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another life

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Nov 2022

‘They paid for it with misery’: Q&A with Chile dam critic Jose Marihuan Ancanao

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022

Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022
The biodiversity of Balkan rivers is now becoming more widely known, and also their beauty, such as Kravice Waterfall in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Photo by Goran Safarek in 2014 for Riverwatch/EuroNatur.

Science that saves free-flowing rivers & rich biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 19 Oct 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022
Cambodia's fisheries and food security are at stake as dams continue to blight the Mekong River

Cambodian mega dam’s resurrection on the Mekong ‘the beginning of the end’

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 15 Sep 2022
The Sekong River is a key tributary for the Mekong River.

In the Mekong Basin, an ‘unnecessary’ dam poses an outsized threat

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 14 Sep 2022
Sumatran elephants play in water.

With less than 10 years to save Sumatran elephants, what’s being done?

Mike DiGirolamo 6 Sep 2022

‘Cursed’ dam project in orangutan habitat claims 16th life in less than 2 years

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2022
Chiew Larn reservoir, Thailand

Small mammals stranded by hydropower dams die out surprisingly fast: Study

Carolyn Cowan 14 Jul 2022
Colombia dam

Displaced by a dam, women defenders fight for their land rights in Colombia

Jane K. Feeney 13 Jul 2022

‘Water always wins,’ so why are we fighting it?

Mike DiGirolamo 12 Jul 2022

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