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  • The surge in hydroelectric dams is driving massive biodiversity loss - Conversation 24.05.24418394
  • The shadows of Amazon dams - Ecologist 20.05.25471145
  • China plans to build the world’s largest dam – but what does this mean for India and Bangladesh downstream? - Conversation 08.04.25464210
  • Russia evacuates 4,000 people after dam bursts, floods near Kazakh border - Al Jazeera 06.04.24406115
  • Free Detained Tibetan Demonstrators - HRW 28.02.24400158
  • New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project - Mongabay 20.12.23391135
  • Latest planned Amazon dam project threatens Indigenous lands, endemic species - Mongabay 11.12.23388280
  • Worst-ever contamination of Ireland’s largest lake: What’s to blame? - Al Jazeera 06.11.23382326
  • As climate change warms rivers, they are running out of breath – and so could the plants and animals they harbor - Conversation 14.09.23372914
  • ‘Citizen scientists make a vital difference’: the locals who proved the River Wye was polluted - Guardian 12.08.23385546
  • Hardly further recovery: Biodiversity in European rivers stagnates - IGB 09.08.23366920
  • As work begins on the largest US dam removal project, tribes look to a future of growth - AP News 31.07.23364094
  • How Toronto’s Don River, once declared dead, is roaring back to life - Guardian 22.05.23347071
  • ‘The hydropower goldrush’: how Europe’s first wild river national park saw off the dams - Guardian 22.03.23336538
  • Amazon pollution: the stain on Ecuador's oil boom - New Vision 17.02.23330202
  • Video: The disastrous redesign of Pakistan’s rivers - Vox 30.01.23327606
  • Trapped Sediment Robbing World’s Large Dams of Vital Water Storage Capacity ~26% Loss by 2050 Foreseen - Pressenza 12.01.23324983
  • US to demolish four dams in river restoration effort - Al Jazeera 17.11.22316170
  • Dam Safety: Probable Maximum Flood Events Will Significantly Increase Over Next 80 Years, Study Finds - ENN 15.11.22315770
  • Cambodian mega dam’s resurrection on the Mekong ‘the beginning of the end’ - Mongabay 15.09.22306233
  • Celebrating 30 Years of Shared Water - Global Issues 23.08.22302071
  • Saving sacred rivers - AP News 20.08.22301782
  • Europe’s rivers run dry as scientists warn drought could be worst in 500 years - Guardian 13.08.22300471
  • ‘Incredibly promising’: the bubble barrier extracting plastic from a Dutch river - Guardian 05.08.22300837
  • Low water levels mean Rhine is days from being shut for cargo - Guardian 05.08.22299090
  • Another Dam(n) Extinction - The Revelator 01.08.22306845
  • Quiet flows the Po: the life and slow death of Italy’s longest river - Guardian 10.07.22295932
  • Could Cleaning the Tigris River Help Repair Iraq’s Damaged Reputation? - The Revelator 07.07.22306844
  • China-funded dam could disrupt key Argentine glaciers and biodiversity - Mongabay 12.05.22287277
  • The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem? - Mongabay 21.04.22284905
  • From ‘biologically dead’ to chart-toppingly clean: how the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years - The Conversation 21.04.22283676
  • Can India clean up its holiest river? It will take a village - Nat Geo 17.03.22277762
  • World's Rivers Awash in Pharmaceuticals, Historic Study Reveals - CD 14.02.22273596
  • Drugs have dangerously polluted the world’s rivers, scientists warn - Guardian 14.02.22273465
  • In Bolivia, Indigenous groups fear the worst from dam project on Beni River - Mongabay 11.01.22269329
  • Polish court revives ‘highly flawed’ hydroelectric dam plan for Vistula River - Guardian 28.12.21267030
  • California’s Reliance on Dams Puts Fish in Hot Water - The Revelator 22.09.21306846
  • China turns on world’s second-biggest hydropower dam - AP News 28.06.21248974
  • Carbon emissions from dams considerably underestimated so far - ENN 13.05.21244547
  • UK suit against BHP over 2015 Brazil dam failure hits wall - Al Jazeera 24.03.21239465
  • Damming rivers is terrible for human rights, ecosystems and food security - EcoWatch 03.03.21237754
  • ‘The river will bleed red’: Indigenous Filipinos face down dam projects - Mongabay 26.02.21236769
  • Do rivers have legal rights? - Emagazine 11.02.21238280
  • Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change - ENN 22.01.21232857
  • European money funds an Amazon dam, but affected residents haven’t seen much of it - Mongabay 14.12.20228194
  • 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 30.09.20218075
  • Cambodia’s biggest lake is running dry, taking forests and fish with it - Nat Geo 17.08.20214285
  • Ecuador races for emergency infrastructure as river’s collapse threatens dam - Mongabay 11.08.20213963
  • More than 500 dams planned in protected areas around the globe, study finds - ENN 06.08.20213548
  • Podcast: A dam plan gone wrong in Ecuador's Amazon - Al Jazeera 29.07.20213118
  • 200 Years Ago My Family Built a Dam — Now My Organization Is Tearing It Down - The Revelator 27.07.20306847
  • Critically endangered orangutan species in Indonesia gets reprieve as controversial dam delayed - EcoWatch 17.07.20212613
  • A Dam Comes Down — and Tribes, Cities, Salmon and Orcas Could All Benefit - The Revelator 14.07.20306848
  • Water cooperation between States ‘key’ to Blue Nile dam project - UN News 29.06.20211711
  • Communities on Brazil’s ‘River of Unity’ tested by dams, climate change - Mongabay 02.06.20208949
  • In Michigan, dams plus climate change equals a disastrous mix - Inside Climate News 22.05.20208322
  • Food webs determine the fate of mercury pollution in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon - Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 15.05.20207828
  • China held water back from drought-stricken Mekong countries - Mongabay 30.04.20206308
  • Divisions run deep as filling of Nile dam nears - Guardian 23.04.20205515
  • Nebraska dam had history of ice woes before fatal failure - AP News 21.04.20205350
  • The impact of Guinea's Souapiti dam on displaces communities - HRW 16.04.20205286
  • Estuaries are warming at twice the rate of oceans and atmosphere - University of Sydney 14.04.20205127
  • FutureDAMS project - IIED 2018-2021203732
  • Keep the Blue Heart beating - Friends of the Earth Europe 30.04.18114361
  • Balkan dam projects could result in loss of one in 10 European fish species - Guardian 18.04.18114362
  • Dam Lies: Despite Promises, An Indigenous Community’s Land Is Flooded - The Revelator 05.03.18306843
  • Brazil dam disaster: firm knew of potential impact months in advance - Guardian 01.03.18114366
  • Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon - Mongabay 28.02.18114367
  • The era of mega-dams in Brazil may be coming to an end - PRI 09.02.18114368
  • Journal: Fragmentation of Andes-to-Amazon connectivity by hydropower dams - Anderson, E.P et al 31.01.18114372
  • Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses - Mongabay 10.01.18114373
  • Indigenous group scores legal victory as dam floods their lands - Mongabay 12.10.17114374
  • Dams on Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river could fuel more conflicts in the country - Conversation 10.10.17243756
  • Can a river have legal rights? I visited the jungles of Colombia to find out - The Conversation 06.10.17114379
  • How India and Pakistan are competing over the mighty Indus river - The Conversation 01.06.17114380
  • Yellowstone fish deaths point to huge toll of human activity on rivers – Guardian 05.01.17114381
  • Few families overcome forced displacement by hydropower plants in Brazil – The Wire 11.10.16114385
  • The Amazon: Dirty dams, Dirty Politics and the Myth of Clean Energy (pdf) - Digital Commons 11.02.14114386
  • Google Earth Shows How Dams Could Worsen Climate Change - National Geographic 11/11114387
  • Greenwashing Hydropower: The Problems with Big Dams - International Rivers 1/12114392
  • “Sustainability” Tool Protects Dam Builders, Not Rivers and Rights - International Rivers 3/12114393
  • Dams Worldwide Are at Risk of Catastrophic Failure - Scientific American 15.09.23373099
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