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India’s dam building bonanza
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boatman on the Brahmaputra: his life is changingImage: Kieran Cooke By Kieran Cooke India is in the midst of a massive hydro electric dam building programme, necessary, it says,...
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Rainforest tribes seek World Cup spotlight
Kayapò tribal leaders from the Amazon rainforest put their case to the media Image: Sue Cunningham/SCP By Kieran Cooke Tribal leaders from the Amazon rainforest are using the glare of publicity on...
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Elections sideline São Paulo drought crisis
Past prime: drought has now hit dams on rivers such as the Paranapanema Image: José Reynaldo da Fonseca via Wikimedia Commons By Jan Rocha As South America’s biggest city suffers its worst drought in...
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Drowned tropical forests add to climate change
Dead trees poke eerily out of the Nam Theun 2 dam reservoir in Laos Image: Dominique Serça/CNRS By Paul Brown New scientific data supports the belief that methane emissions from big hydroelectric dams...
View ArticleChina ramps up the rhetoric on climate change
Senior Chinese official warns that climate-related temperature rises could seriously affect the country’s harvests and major infrastructure projects. LONDON, 28 March, 2015 − Zheng Guogang, head of the...
View ArticleFlood risk to nuclear sites raises meltdown fears
Sea level rise, storm surges and bursting dams all pose an increasing danger to nuclear power stations as the climate changes. LONDON, 5 May, 2015 – Safety checks following the Fukushima disaster in...
View ArticleHeat and drought pose threat to US power supplies
Global warming will leave people in the western states of the US exposed to increasingly extreme temperatures that could seriously affect electricity generation. LONDON, 22 May, 2015 – Climate change...
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Renewable energy redoubles its global reach
As the world economy and energy use both grew in 2014, renewables continued their rapid rise − but carbon emissions did not. LONDON, 27 June, 2015 − A significant threshold has been crossed by...
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