Selected Articles

The surge in hydroelectric dams is driving massive biodiversity loss - Conversation 24.05.24 418394
The shadows of Amazon dams - Ecologist 20.05.25 471145
China plans to build the world’s largest dam – but what does this mean for India and Bangladesh downstream? - Conversation 08.04.25 464210
Russia evacuates 4,000 people after dam bursts, floods near Kazakh border - Al Jazeera 06.04.24 406115
Free Detained Tibetan Demonstrators - HRW 28.02.24 400158
New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project - Mongabay 20.12.23 391135
Latest planned Amazon dam project threatens Indigenous lands, endemic species - Mongabay 11.12.23 388280
Worst-ever contamination of Ireland’s largest lake: What’s to blame? - Al Jazeera 06.11.23 382326
As climate change warms rivers, they are running out of breath – and so could the plants and animals they harbor - Conversation 14.09.23 372914
‘Citizen scientists make a vital difference’: the locals who proved the River Wye was polluted - Guardian 12.08.23 385546
Hardly further recovery: Biodiversity in European rivers stagnates - IGB 09.08.23 366920
As work begins on the largest US dam removal project, tribes look to a future of growth - AP News 31.07.23 364094
How Toronto’s Don River, once declared dead, is roaring back to life - Guardian 22.05.23 347071
‘The hydropower goldrush’: how Europe’s first wild river national park saw off the dams - Guardian 22.03.23 336538
Amazon pollution: the stain on Ecuador's oil boom - New Vision 17.02.23 330202
Video: The disastrous redesign of Pakistan’s rivers - Vox 30.01.23 327606
Trapped Sediment Robbing World’s Large Dams of Vital Water Storage Capacity ~26% Loss by 2050 Foreseen - Pressenza 12.01.23 324983
US to demolish four dams in river restoration effort - Al Jazeera 17.11.22 316170
Dam Safety: Probable Maximum Flood Events Will Significantly Increase Over Next 80 Years, Study Finds - ENN 15.11.22 315770
Cambodian mega dam’s resurrection on the Mekong ‘the beginning of the end’ - Mongabay 15.09.22 306233
Celebrating 30 Years of Shared Water - Global Issues 23.08.22 302071
Saving sacred rivers - AP News 20.08.22 301782
Europe’s rivers run dry as scientists warn drought could be worst in 500 years - Guardian 13.08.22 300471
‘Incredibly promising’: the bubble barrier extracting plastic from a Dutch river - Guardian 05.08.22 300837
Low water levels mean Rhine is days from being shut for cargo - Guardian 05.08.22 299090
Another Dam(n) Extinction - The Revelator 01.08.22 306845
Quiet flows the Po: the life and slow death of Italy’s longest river - Guardian 10.07.22 295932
Could Cleaning the Tigris River Help Repair Iraq’s Damaged Reputation? - The Revelator 07.07.22 306844
China-funded dam could disrupt key Argentine glaciers and biodiversity - Mongabay 12.05.22 287277
The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem? - Mongabay 21.04.22 284905
From ‘biologically dead’ to chart-toppingly clean: how the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years - The Conversation 21.04.22 283676
Can India clean up its holiest river? It will take a village - Nat Geo 17.03.22 277762
World's Rivers Awash in Pharmaceuticals, Historic Study Reveals - CD 14.02.22 273596
Drugs have dangerously polluted the world’s rivers, scientists warn - Guardian 14.02.22 273465
In Bolivia, Indigenous groups fear the worst from dam project on Beni River - Mongabay 11.01.22 269329
Polish court revives ‘highly flawed’ hydroelectric dam plan for Vistula River - Guardian 28.12.21 267030
California’s Reliance on Dams Puts Fish in Hot Water - The Revelator 22.09.21 306846
China turns on world’s second-biggest hydropower dam - AP News 28.06.21 248974
Carbon emissions from dams considerably underestimated so far - ENN 13.05.21 244547
UK suit against BHP over 2015 Brazil dam failure hits wall - Al Jazeera 24.03.21 239465
Damming rivers is terrible for human rights, ecosystems and food security - EcoWatch 03.03.21 237754
‘The river will bleed red’: Indigenous Filipinos face down dam projects - Mongabay 26.02.21 236769
Do rivers have legal rights? - Emagazine 11.02.21 238280
Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change - ENN 22.01.21 232857
European money funds an Amazon dam, but affected residents haven’t seen much of it - Mongabay 14.12.20 228194
Lessons learned from a decade on Oregon’s Big River - Cristina Watson 10.12.20 227816
Community hydropower dam illuminates life in Salvadoran villages - Global Issues 30.09.20 218075
Cambodia’s biggest lake is running dry, taking forests and fish with it - Nat Geo 17.08.20 214285
Ecuador races for emergency infrastructure as river’s collapse threatens dam - Mongabay 11.08.20 213963
More than 500 dams planned in protected areas around the globe, study finds - ENN 06.08.20 213548
Podcast: A dam plan gone wrong in Ecuador's Amazon - Al Jazeera 29.07.20 213118
200 Years Ago My Family Built a Dam — Now My Organization Is Tearing It Down - The Revelator 27.07.20 306847
Critically endangered orangutan species in Indonesia gets reprieve as controversial dam delayed - EcoWatch 17.07.20 212613
A Dam Comes Down — and Tribes, Cities, Salmon and Orcas Could All Benefit - The Revelator 14.07.20 306848
Water cooperation between States ‘key’ to Blue Nile dam project - UN News 29.06.20 211711
Communities on Brazil’s ‘River of Unity’ tested by dams, climate change - Mongabay 02.06.20 208949
In Michigan, dams plus climate change equals a disastrous mix - Inside Climate News 22.05.20 208322
Food webs determine the fate of mercury pollution in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon - Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 15.05.20 207828
China held water back from drought-stricken Mekong countries - Mongabay 30.04.20 206308
Divisions run deep as filling of Nile dam nears - Guardian 23.04.20 205515
Nebraska dam had history of ice woes before fatal failure - AP News 21.04.20 205350
The impact of Guinea's Souapiti dam on displaces communities - HRW 16.04.20 205286
Estuaries are warming at twice the rate of oceans and atmosphere - University of Sydney 14.04.20 205127
FutureDAMS project - IIED 2018-2021 203732
Keep the Blue Heart beating - Friends of the Earth Europe 30.04.18 114361
Balkan dam projects could result in loss of one in 10 European fish species - Guardian 18.04.18 114362
Dam Lies: Despite Promises, An Indigenous Community’s Land Is Flooded - The Revelator 05.03.18 306843
Brazil dam disaster: firm knew of potential impact months in advance - Guardian 01.03.18 114366
Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon - Mongabay 28.02.18 114367
The era of mega-dams in Brazil may be coming to an end - PRI 09.02.18 114368
Journal: Fragmentation of Andes-to-Amazon connectivity by hydropower dams - Anderson, E.P et al 31.01.18 114372
Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses - Mongabay 10.01.18 114373
Indigenous group scores legal victory as dam floods their lands - Mongabay 12.10.17 114374
Dams on Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river could fuel more conflicts in the country - Conversation 10.10.17 243756
Can a river have legal rights? I visited the jungles of Colombia to find out - The Conversation 06.10.17 114379
How India and Pakistan are competing over the mighty Indus river - The Conversation 01.06.17 114380
Yellowstone fish deaths point to huge toll of human activity on rivers – Guardian 05.01.17 114381
Few families overcome forced displacement by hydropower plants in Brazil – The Wire 11.10.16 114385
The Amazon: Dirty dams, Dirty Politics and the Myth of Clean Energy (pdf) - Digital Commons 11.02.14 114386
Google Earth Shows How Dams Could Worsen Climate Change - National Geographic 11/11 114387
Greenwashing Hydropower: The Problems with Big Dams - International Rivers 1/12 114392
“Sustainability” Tool Protects Dam Builders, Not Rivers and Rights - International Rivers 3/12 114393
Dams Worldwide Are at Risk of Catastrophic Failure - Scientific American 15.09.23 373099