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Researchers from the Washington State University found that the world’s reservoirs generate 1.3 percent of all greenhouse gases produced by humankind. The finding confirms once more than large dams are unsustainable energy sources that cause great harm to the climate.

This article originally appeared in the Bangkok Post. The Thai government's recent push to speed up its energy investment in Myanmar's Salween River contradicts its own efforts to warn Thai investors from operating overseas projects that violate human rights. A number of hydropower dams proposed for the Salween River, and co-invested in by the state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) and companies in China and Myanmar, would force tens of thousands of ethnic minorities to leave their homes and undermine the current peace process in Myanmar. In May this year, the Thai gove

Deep in the Amazon’s central basin, one tribe is holding back the seemingly inexorable march of development.

On August 30, Spanish energy company Endesa announced that it was revoking all claims to Futaleufú, Puelo, Chillan, Bardón and Huechún rivers in Chile and canceling its hydroelectric projects on these five rivers totaling 2,151 megawatts.

Can Myanmar meet its energy needs without resorting to coal or large dams?

This article originally appeared in Mongabay. New book describes rich environmental and social diversity of the Amazon’s Tapajós basin, but warns against planned dams and industrial waterway.In early August, the Brazilian government unexpectedly cancelled the São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric power station, the largest of a series of major dams planned along the Tapajós River and its tributaries. Indigenous groups and environmentalists celebrated that victory. But now comes a timely new book that evaluates the immense looming social and environmental challenges still facing the 1,500 mi

Shan civic groups held a press conference in Bangkok today, claiming that the Burmese government, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, is working secretly in support of dam construction on the Salween River, despite knowing that the mega-project will greatly affect many people.

Dismissing its neighbors' pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia's poorest people.

Brazil’s Federal Environmental Agency (IBAMA) announced today that it has cancelled the licensing process for the controversial São Luiz do Tapajós mega-dam, the largest planned hydro project in the Amazon. International Rivers and AmazonWatch welcomed the decision as a great success and an important precedent case.

Hydropower is often described as a clean and green source of energy. But is it really sustainable?