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

Liz Kimbrough 5 Mar 2019

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

Philip M. Fearnside 26 Feb 2019

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

Claire Asher 29 Nov 2018

The superb mimicry skills of an Australian songbird

Mike Gaworecki 21 Aug 2018

Laos dam collapse highlights global hydropower amnesia (commentary)

Gus Greenstein 20 Aug 2018

Lao government says it will suspend new hydro projects after dam collapse kills 31

Mongabay 13 Aug 2018

Heavy rains preceded the Laos dam collapse. Was climate change a factor?

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2018

Company to probe for minerals close to Mekong River dolphin habitat

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2018

Roads, dams and railways: Ten infrastructure stories from Southeast Asia in 2017

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2017

From friends to strangers: The decline of the Irrawaddy dolphin (commentary)

Sabrina Gyorvary with Namthip Khudsavanh 20 Nov 2017

‘If it’s going to kill us, OK, we’ll die’: Villagers stand firm as Cambodian dam begins to fill

Jenny Denton 18 Oct 2017

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Claire Salisbury 7 Aug 2017

Global megadam activism and the sounds of nature in Taiwan

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jul 2017

Trump’s policies could put Cambodia’s environment on chopping block

Logan Connor 11 Jul 2017

A rising chorus of voices condemns Laos’ planned Pak Beng dam

Jenny Denton 2 Jun 2017

China’s Domestic Dams: Hydropower not only an export for world’s biggest dam builder

Luc Forsyth 28 Feb 2017

Counterintuitive: Global hydropower boom will add to climate change

Claire Salisbury 14 Feb 2017

Shrugging off the risks, Laos plans to proceed with the Pak Beng dam

Jenny Denton 8 Feb 2017

Before the flood: can the Bunong culture survive Cambodia’s Sesan II dam?

Luc Forsyth 27 Jan 2017

The Dammed Don: Lao hydropower project pushes ahead despite alarm from scientists

Melody Kemp 13 Jan 2017

Rainbow-headed snake, rare wild banana among 163 new species discovered in Greater Mekong region: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Dec 2016

Newscast #7: Undiscovered Sumatran rhinos in the wild in Malaysia? Maybe, maybe not.

Mike Gaworecki 13 Dec 2016

The media megaphone: does it help curb bad infrastructure projects?

Daniel Pye, Alice Cuddy 7 Dec 2016

Mother Nature and a hydropower onslaught aren’t the Mekong Delta’s only problems

David E. Brown 13 Oct 2016

Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta?

David E. Brown 3 Oct 2016

Scientists sound alarm over hydropower’s impacts on tropical fish biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2016

Partnerships are key to The Wildlife Conservation Society’s new conservation strategy

Mike Gaworecki 21 Oct 2015

Cambodian dam proceeds despite opposition over fish, ousted villagers

Rod Harbinson 17 Aug 2015

Rich forest diversity found in new Yunnan, China preserve

Jonathan Galka 15 Jul 2015

First-of-its-kind mapping technique sheds new light on tropical forests

Shreya Dasgupta 29 May 2015

NASA: Forest loss leaps in Bolivia, Mekong region

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2014

Hydro projects a front for logging in Vietnam

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2013

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