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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
In the lower Omo River Valley of southern Ethiopia, a spreading humanitarian emergency that threatens to spawn conflicts in the region is largely being met with silence from both the...
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Saturday, November 28, 2015
The Administrative Court will today begin hearing a ground-breaking lawsuit regarding the transboundary impacts of the Xayaburi dam, located on the Mekong River in Laos -- how it will...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
The Save the Mekong Coalition urges Mekong governments to take immediate action to cancel the Don Sahong Dam before construction begins at the end of November.
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Monday, November 23, 2015
A huge brown plume of mud and mining waste spread out along the coast of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo on Monday, a little over two weeks after the collapse of a dam at an iron ore...
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Friday, November 6, 2015
Once again, a dam break brought utter devastation to Brazil. Read the story from Reuters News.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Encroaching sea water from the south, a proliferation of hydro dams in the north and large-scale sand mining are endangering the Mekong delta. What can be done?
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Friday, October 16, 2015
A delegation of Lao officials will visit two neighboring countries to inform them about the commencement of construction work on a controversial 260-megawatt hydropower dam on the Mekong...
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
Brazil's new pledge to slash its national carbon footprint by 43% by 2030 sounds like exactly the kind of aggressive commitment that environmentalists have been clamoring for ahead of...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Brazil’s controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric plant is facing another setback after the country’s environmental protection agency, Ibama, threatened to withhold an operating licence until...
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Friday, September 11, 2015
Cambodian officials vowed on Friday to prevent neighbor Laos from going ahead with construction of the controversial Don Sahong dam without approval from fellow Mekong River basin countries...
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Friday, September 11, 2015
A new massive dam starts power generation this month in Ethiopia, and another is scheduled to come online next year. But at what cost?
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Critics say the Thai government's 2015 Power Development Plan stands to affect people unfairly. A group of citizens demanded Monday that the government revoke it and start again.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015
International Rivers' Ame Trandem, Southeast Asia Program Director, responds to the news that the Lao National Assembly has approved the Concession Agreement for the Don Sahong Dam.
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Monday, August 31, 2015
Ignoring painful lessons from the past, the Indonesian government orders the filling of a reservoir even though thousands of local people have not yet been resettled and compensated.
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Monday, August 17, 2015
People in Vietnam hope Thailand will reconsider its plan to divert water from the Mekong - because it would seriously affect their ability to produce food.
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Monday, August 10, 2015
When people tear down dams, they know it'll help the fish. But a dam removal in Washington State is showing that something else benefits, too: the beach.
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Friday, August 7, 2015
Many hydroelectric dams produce modest amounts of power yet do enormous damage to rivers and fish. Why not remove these aging structures and build solar farms in the drained reservoirs?
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Thursday, August 6, 2015
Bowing to the pressure from farmers and environmental NGOs, a hydro developer has dropped the construction of a controversial tunnel in India.
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Sunday, August 9, 2015
For years, environmental organizations have warned of the devastating effects of dam building and sand dredging on the Mekong. Now the fish shortages are here -- and they're stirring ethnic...
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Saturday, August 8, 2015
Ethnic tribespeople fighting the proposed Baram hydroelectric dam want the Sarawak government to meet a few conditions before they lift their year-long blockade of the proposed dam site.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Environmental activists urged President Barack Obama to raise concerns about an Ethiopian dam's impact on Kenya when he met with government officials in Addis Ababa this week.
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Monday, July 27, 2015
Lake Turkana sustains the tribes in Kenya’s remote north, but projects upstream threaten its lifeblood.
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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Two of the world's most populous nations - China and India - are building hundreds of dams in a violently active geologic zone.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015
China is pursuing an ambitious program of hydroelectric expansion, with a series of mega-dams on the way even bigger than the controversial Three Gorges project. But are there signs that...
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Friday, July 10, 2015
The Thai military government and its Myanmar counterpart have signed a memorandum of understanding on energy, with an eye to expanding Thailand’s import of electricity from Myanmar, by up...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
The Brazilian government has violated its own constitution and international law by developing hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon, according to an indigenous leader due to address the...
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Friday, May 22, 2015
โครงการลงทุนจากต่างชาติที่มีความเสี่ยงสูง ทำให้เกิดความกังวลมากขึ้นเกี่ยวกับธุรกิจที่มีความรับผิดชอบ Mega-First Corporation Berhad (บริษัท Mega-First)...
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Monday, May 18, 2015
On invitation by ESI Africa, International Rivers' Africa Programme Director, Rudo Sanyanga, examines worldwide large-scale hydro power project and Africa's Grand Inga Dam.(This opinon...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015
By the mid-1980s, river activists in the US had achieved considerable success. Congress had passed the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in 1968, and a growing number of dams were being removed to...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Climate change may be the most urgent global environmental issue of our time, bringing with it a host of challenges for rivers and dams. Rivers are key to ensuring the overall function of...
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