International Rivers in the Media
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Monday, April 27, 2015
This article was originally posted on Mongabay. Peru is planning a series of huge hydroelectric dams on the 1,700-kilometer (1,056-mile) Marañón River, which begins in the Peruvian Andes...
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Monday, May 4, 2015
Around the world, the proponents of large dams consistently downplay or simply ignore the true socio-environmental consequences and risks of their projects, especially for local populations...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The Munduruku, Apiaká, Kayabi and Rikbaktsa release joint statement as Brazil steps ups efforts to exploit power of the rivers Members of the Munduruku indigenous tribe dance along the...
In the Media
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
East African countries must diversify their energy mix beyond hydro and address rural electrification, according to a jointly published report released today, ESI-Africa reports.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Clean hydroelectric plants are meant to help the world fight global warming. But what happens when climate change clouds hydro's own future? From Foreign Policy magazine.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
The Board of Directors of International Rivers has appointed veteran staff member Peter Bosshard to serve as Interim Executive Director effective March 1st. Mr. Bosshard will take over...
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Monday, January 26, 2015
The charade over whether to proceed with Don Sahong Dam, the second Mekong mainstream hydropower project near the Laotian-Cambodian border, will soon reach a defining moment.
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Friday, September 26, 2014
We need consistency in national efforts. We have a real opportunity to take the lead in the region that goes beyond a presidential campaign promise to attend the UN Climate Summit, or the...
In the Media
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
Brazilian authorities have suspended the auction of the centerpiece of the massive Tapajós hydroelectric complex. The Mining and Energy Ministry said it needed to further study the...
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Thursday, September 4, 2014
The prestigious Stockholm Water Prize should celebrate the solutions of the future, not the past, argues International Rivers' Africa director Rudo Sanyanga.
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
Controversial efforts in China to construct a dam on the free-flowing Nu River recently got a quiet boost. In a little-noticed July decision made public last week, a corporate statement...
Audio, In the Media
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014
National Public Radio spoke with International Rivers' Southeast Asia Program Director Ame Trandem about the negative impacts of the proposed Xayaburi and Don Sahong dams on the people and...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
It’s a rare occasion when the president of a small Central American country tries to get a U.S. Senate aide fired. But Guatemala’s Otto Pérez Molina is not having the typical term. Pérez...
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Sunday, April 6, 2014
Recorrer el río Marañón es toparse con una sucesión de paisajes irrepetibles y en riesgo debido a su potencial hidroeléctrico.
In the Media
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Sunday, April 6, 2014
This article originally appeared in The Bangkok Post. International Rivers has expressed disappointment at the outcome of the second Mekong River Commission (MRC) summit, which wrapped up...
In the Media
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Monday, March 31, 2014
Originally published in Cambodia Daily – Leading conservation groups on Sunday issued a joint declaration opposing the construction of Laos’ controversial Xayaburi hydropower dam as...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
While expedition paddler Rocky Contos is in the headlines for his discovery of the new source of the Amazon and guiding trips on Peru’s Grand Canyon-like Rio Marañón for the likes of blind...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Factsheet published by International Rivers and AIDA In its budget bill for 2014, the US Congress has taken bold steps to promote environmental justice within international financial...
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Friday, January 24, 2014
The Washington Post – The United States is demanding stricter oversight of World Bank projects amid concern that the bank has slipped in how closely it guards against violence, forced...
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Friday, December 20, 2013
The Amazon tribe has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously stopped a dam. Now its leaders must fight again or risk losing a way of life.
In the Media
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Monday, December 16, 2013
As you read this, a power outage is affecting much of Africa and South Asia. It will not be over in a few hours or days: about 1.4 billion people live in a state of permanent blackout. More...
In the Media
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
The Mekong is the natural habitat of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin. The 4,000 islands region, as it’s known, is home to one of world’s biggest Irrawaddy dolphin pools. This month,...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Communities in Sarawak state protest against hydro electric project that they say will submerge their homes and land.
In the Media
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Monday, October 7, 2013
Cambodia's per capita consumption of inland fish is among the highest in the world and its people depend on fish for nearly three-quarters of their protein intake. But information released...
Audio, In the Media
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Friday, August 9, 2013
On August 1, 2013 Gary Graham Hughes interviewed Kate Ross, Patagonia Coordinator and Program Associate at International Rivers, for the EcoNews Report at KHSU.
Audio, In the Media
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Tigris Valley Threatened by the Ilsu Free Speech Radio News' Jacob Resneck reports on the movement to protect the Tigris River from the massive Ilisu Dam project. See the original story on...
In the Media
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The big, bad dams of past decades are back in style. In the 1950s and '60s, huge hydropower projects such as the Kariba, Akosombo and Inga dams were supposed to modernise poor African...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Leading multilateral development banks have recently stepped up financing of large hydropower projects after a decade-long slowdown due to environmental and social concerns, according to an...
In the Media
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Radio Free Asia reports that villagers resettled by the Xayaburi Dam in Laos are facing extreme poverty, land shortages, lack of employment opportunities and electricity outages.
In the Media
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Chile's leading presidential candidate, Michelle Bachelet, says she opposes the HidroAysén plan, a $7 billion project to power central Chile by damming Patagonian rivers.
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