In the Media

New York Times article on the impacts of China’s Upper Mekong dams on people living downstream along the Mekong River

The Three Gorges Dam has been dogged by controversy ever since it was mooted but the deadliest risk has barely been acknowledged. Discusses potential human health and environmental impacts in the reservoir fluctuation zone. 

The Three Gorges Dam is already threatening one of the world's biggest fisheries in the East China Sea. 

Tidal wetlands on the Yangtze delta near Shanghai are in danger of disappearing because of sediment trapped in the Three Gorges Dam. 

Sichuan Geologist Fan Xiao Travels to the Three Gorges reservoir area, and reports on aspects of the project that continue to trouble Chinese experts. Published in Chinese National Geographic and translated by Three Gorges Probe. 

Article from AFP An environmental group appealed Tuesday to the Chinese government and a number of Chinese enterprises to stop work on a dam project in Myanmar that threatens to block one of Asia's great river systems. China Power Investment Corp. and China Southern Power Grid are among the handful of companies involved in building the Myitsone hydropower plant across the Irrawady river, the Kachin Development Networking Group said. "We are approaching the companies and the Chinese government because this area is very important for our Kachin people," said a group spokesman, re

Al Jazeera International TV news story on Nam Theun 2, featuring an interview with International Rivers' Carl Middleton.

O governo boliviano foi pego de surpresa com a decisão do Ibama de conceder a licença prévia para a construção de duas usinas hidrelétricas no rio Madeira, que nasce com o nome de Mamoré, na Bolívia. Da confluência do Mamoré com o rio Beni, ainda na Bolívia, surge o rio Madeira, na fronteira entre os dois países. Nesta terça-feira, um dia depois do anúncio oficial do Brasil, autoridades do governo boliviano analisavam a possibilidade de divulgar uma nota de protesto, pedindo explicações pela conclusão do Ibama Outra alternativa em discussão era a divulgação de um

Opponents of a plan to build five large hydroelectric dams in Region XI are welcoming a new partner in their campaign to protect Chile's majestic, glacier-fed rivers in the southern Chile area known as Aysén. This week, an influential U.S. environmental group called ForestEthics joined the fray with a stern warning to two of Chile's largest economic groups: the Matte and Angelini consortiums. The Matte Group is a majority owner of Colbún, a Chilean energy company that, together with Spanish electricity giant Endesa, is planning to build five dams in Region XI - three on the Pascu