Environmental Impacts

The Aluminum Can's Dirty Little Secret

Wednesday, May 17, 2006
International Rivers Network, Container Recycling Institute press release CONTACT: Jenny Gitlitz, CRI Research Dir., Dalton, MA (413) 684.4746Pat Franklin, CRI Executive Dir., Washington, DC (703) 276.9800Glenn Switkes, IRN Latin America Dir., São Paulo, Brazil 011.55.11.3822.4157Peter Bosshard, IRN Policy Dir., Berkeley, CA (510) 848.1155 The Aluminum Can’s Dirty Little Secret: On-going Environmental Harm Outpaces the Metal’s “Green” BenefitsWASHINGTON, DCIndustry “greenwashing” obscures the real environmental costs of aluminum production, according to the Container Recycling Ins

Media Briefing: Thai-Lao Hydropower Projects

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Thursday December 13th, 10 am, Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) In September, officials from Thailand and Laos joined the World Bank at a High-Level Forum on Sustainable Hydropower Development. Both countries affirmed the need for environmental and social standards when designing, building and implementing hydropower projects. But can their words be matched by deeds? Laos has put hydropower center stage in its development goals, as a source of foreign-currency income and sustainable energy. Its government has vowed to strength its regulatory institutions and policies to secure ma

Breeding Ground

Saturday, September 10, 2005
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. 

Three Gorges Dam Threatens Vast Fishery

Saturday, February 25, 2006
The Three Gorges Dam is already threatening one of the world's biggest fisheries in the East China Sea. 

Dam Puts Shanghai Wetlands at Sea’s Mercy

Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Tidal wetlands on the Yangtze delta near Shanghai are in danger of disappearing because of sediment trapped in the Three Gorges Dam. 

A World of Hurt

New Research Reveals Massive Impacts of Damming on World’s Large RiversWorld Rivers Review, June 2005 The extent to which dams affect the world’s large river systems is the focus of a major new study by a research team from the Landscape Ecology Group at Umeå University, Sweden. The rivers studied drain 54% of the world's land area and carry 60% of the planet's river-water. The researchers found that of 292 large river systems, 172 are affected by dams. WRR interviewed the researchers – Mats Dynesius and Christer Nilsson and Cathy Reidy – to discuss the significance of their findings.

A World of Hurt

The Colorado River at the Grand Canyon.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
New Research Reveals Massive Impacts of Damming on World’s Large Rivers The extent to which dams affect the world’s large river systems is the focus of a major new study by a research team from the Landscape Ecology Group at Umeå University, Sweden. The rivers studied drain 54% of the world's land area and carry 60% of the planet's river-water. The researchers found that of 292 large river systems, 172 are affected by dams. WRR interviewed the researchers – Mats Dynesius and Christer Nilsson and Cathy Reidy – to discuss the significance of their findings. Q: Your res

Independent Experts Find Fatal Flaws in Amazon Dam Studies

Monday, November 13, 2006
A group of independent experts -- including internationally-renowned authorities on the Amazon -- have found serious errors and omissions in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for Brazil’s massive Madeira River hydroelectric project. The experts found the EIA to be inadequate, and recommend that additional studies be undertaken to evaluate the project’s impacts. The independent studies were commissioned by the Rondônia Public Attorney’s office, and financed by the consortium seeking to build the dams. Brazil’s environmental protection agency, IBAMA, is currently holding public

Environmental Effects of Hydrological Alterations

This article was originally published in BioScience, September 2000.Global–Scale Environmental Effects of Hydrological Alterations: Introductionby David M. Rosenberg, Patrick McCully, and Catherine M. Pringle* The magnitude and extent of dam construction and associated water diversion, exploitation of groundwater aquifers, stream channelization, and interbasin water transfer in the world today are so large that these hydrological alterations are having global–scale environmental effects. The articles in this issue highlight the cumulative effects of hydrological alterations associated with

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