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Thursday, June 21, 2012
By Bianca Jagger, originally published on the Huffington Post. I am at Rio +20, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. I am not holding my breath.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
As host to the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Brazil will draw international attention to its policy on climate change, but the measures announced so far are...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Lori Pottinger discusses the risks of Ethiopia's dam boom, on Ethiopian satellite TV station ESAT.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
An agreement to build Phase II of Africa's biggest dam scheme has been signed, but tough questions about the project remain. Our op-ed appeared in one of South Africa's leading papers.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Originally published in The New York Times
BOCA SANIBENI, Peru — Along the murky waters of the Ene River, in a remote jungle valley on the verdant eastern slopes of the Andes, the rhythmic...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
This article originally appeared in The New York Times COCHRANE, Chile — At the end of a 200-mile stretch of mostly unpaved highway, nearly impassable during the long winter months and only...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
One of the most controversial decisions that former Chongqing Communist Party chief Bo Xilai made during his four-year stay in the southwestern mega-city has been upheld, despite the...
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
The revolt here on the banks of the Madeira River, the Amazon’s largest tributary, flared after sunset. At the simmering end of a 26-day strike by 17,000 workers last month, a faction of...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Jose Carlos Arara puts a tarnished 38-caliber revolver into his waistband. It’s a sweltering, mid- November morning in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest, and the 31-year-old Indian chief...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Originally published at IPS News/TerraViva. PORTO VELHO, Brazil, Apr 25, 2012 (IPS) - In Grenoble, France, there is a 40-metre-long scale model of the Jirau dam that is being built in...
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Brazil's Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River is now under construction despite its many controversies. The Brazilian government has launched an unprecedented drive to dam the Amazon's...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
China's Three Gorges Corp. on Thursday marked the beginning of construction for a dam that will flood the last free-flowing portion of the middle reaches of the Yangtze, the country's...
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From March 2012 World Rivers ReviewYang Yong, in the wilds of Tibet. Geologist-Explorer Documents China’s RiversYang Yong is a renowned explorer and the director of the Hengduan Mountain...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
From March 2012 World Rivers ReviewDWC helped implement this solar pumping station in Ethiopia. Oliver Kopsch is a clean-energy enabler. His company, DecRen Water Consult (DWC), based in...
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From March 2012 World Rivers ReviewIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times …. 2011 saw dams cancelled or delayed in Burma, Laos and Central America; the decommissioning of a few...
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From March 2012 World Rivers Review Although things have quieted down in Chile since the HidroAysén dams’ EIA was approved last May, the five large dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers in...
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From March 2012 World Rivers Review“Sustainability” Tool Protects Dam Builders, Not Rivers and Rights The stated goal of this year’s World Water Forum – the world’s largest meeting...
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Monday, March 5, 2012
From March 2012 World Rivers Review Grand Inga would dam the Congo River Central Africa’s Congo River holds more hydropower potential than any other African river, and the Grand Inga Dam...
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Monday, March 5, 2012
From March 2012 World Rivers ReviewThe Poutès Dam has devastated salmon runs. The Allier, main tributary of the river Loire, is among the last wild rivers in Europe. The river and its...
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From March 2012 World Rivers ReviewEvery day I encounter stories of hope and inspiration from people who are successfully organizing for rivers and their futures as “River People.” Yet...
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Monday, March 5, 2012
From March 2012 World Rivers ReviewNistowiak Falls, Churchill River. The river has seen two-thirds of its flow diverted for hydropower. Photo ©: Ross Barclay Canada is a nation of wild,...
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This past Tuesday, a protest in Cesar, Columbia, culminated in several wounded, the death of a police officer, and burned houses and cars. The struggle was triggered by a stall in the...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Over 440 men, women and children were massacred to make way for the Chixoy Dam - a World Bank and IADB project. Springfield, Massachusetts - On the morning of March 13, 1982, 10-year-old...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
From December 2011 World Rivers Review Dr. Zhou Dequn is a professor at Kunming University of Science and Technology and guest professor at Virginia Tech. He worked for The Nature...
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From December 2011 World Rivers Review Kierán Suckling founded the US-based Center for Biological Diversity in 1989. The highly successful Center uses science, law and creative media to...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
From December 2011 World Rivers Review Renowned biologist E.O. Wilson grew up exploring the swamps and river bottom forests of Mobile, Alabama. Now in his 80s, his long and...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
From December 2011 World Rivers ReviewFreshwater biodiversity is in a state of crisis. Recent efforts to protect and sustainably manage freshwater ecosystems have done little to offset...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
From December 2011 World Rivers ReviewLatin America’s watersheds are rich in biodiversity, yet it is remarkable how much we don’t know about the ecology of these rivers. Aquatic and...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Waitarna Fish Sanctuary. Parineeta Dandekar From December 2011 World Rivers ReviewAs elsewhere around the globe, native freshwater fish diversity in India’s rivers is declining rapidly....
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
The rivers and wetlands of the Western Ghats support 174 species of dragonflies. K.A. Subramanian From December 2011 World Rivers ReviewIndia’s Western "Ghats," which means "river landing...
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