Environment
Damming Brahmaputra: With mega-dam plans, China might end up hurting itself more than India
The true idea of a river is not of a single stream of water between two banks, but a nervous system of watery arteries […]
Tag: dams
Sustainable Business
Argentine provinces clash over a new large-scale dam
Damian Profeta Downstream provinces challenge the Portezuelo del Viento dam over the reduction of water availability After fits and starts that date back to […]
Biodiversity
Watch: DamNation | The Problem with Hydropower
Patagonia This film explores the evolution of our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our […]
Biodiversity
The long goodbye: Study declares ancient Chinese paddlefish extinct
Shreya Dasgupta The Chinese paddlefish is, or rather was, a unique species. It was one of only two living species of paddlefish, part of an […]
Disasters
Colonial Hangover: Engineering a season of floods
Insurgent South Asian rivers breached embankments repeatedly, turning engineered floodplains into hydrological dystopias, but dams kept getting built, and embankments kept getting longer and […]