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The great importance of the mighty Mekong river separates authorities and local people in two categories. Some think the river should be dammed to provide electricity and encourage hydropower development.
Other voices warn that a hydro-electric dam of these dimensions will trigger a series of harmful changes for th... |
14 December 2011
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On the first day of the Durban summit, International Rivers and Friends of the Earth International launched a video showing that dams are the wrong answer to the climate change phenomenon. The Google Earth 3D tour raises the public opinion's level of awareness regarding the connection between dams and current ... |
28 November 2011
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In most of the cases, the activities of major corporations disrupt the balance of indigenous populations living in that area. This is the case of an important Brazilian enterprise that decided to abandon its ample project in Peru, after a brief meeting with the Ashaninka of the Tambo River.
Representatives agreed up... |
23 November 2011
04:16 GMT |
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Only time and advanced research can tell if the idea of removing dams is beneficial for both the environment and local communities. The main idea which supports this action is the fact that, once dams get old, their maintenance takes a significant amount of money out of the governments' pockets.
Also, their pr... |
7 November 2011
09:39 GMT |
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In the United States there are many rivers that need restoration, a complicated and expensive task, so a professor from Kansas State University, though of a smaller engineer that could do the job properly and for free – the North American beaver.Melinda Daniels, an associate professor of geography who recently ... |
4 January 2011
10:03 GMT |
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The Xinhua official Chinese press agency has announced on Monday another breath-taking water diversion project that is meant to bring drinking water to the southwestern regions of the countries, which are prone to severe drought. Some 412,000 people will benefit from the project, as will nearly 651,400 acres of lands... |
20 January 2009
06:20 GMT |
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The North-south water route is an enormous project devised by Beijing, which promotes the construction of several new canals, meant to unite the country's four main rivers – the Yangtze, the Yellow River, Huaihe and Haihe. Once completed, around 2050, the project will offer Northern Chinese cities, plagued... |
8 December 2008
04:28 GMT |
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The Saemangeum dam, on the coast of the Yellow Sea in South Korea, is a 33 kilometer (20.5 miles) long sea wall that, since 2006, keeps ocean waters from entering a newly-recovered, 400 square km area of land, in the province of Jeollabuk-do. Several previous administrations supported the project, which has received ... |
24 November 2008
08:07 GMT |
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The possibility of building such a large project is now brought into discussion by Roelof Dirk Schuiling of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in the hope that it would solve the energy related problems of millions of people in the Middle East, which could release some of the tensions related to oil supplies thro... |
6 December 2007
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The first beavers appeared in North America about 32 million years ago (at the beginning of Oligocene); by the end of Oligocene, 23 million years ago, they entered Europe, and by the end of Miocene, 5 million years ago, they entered Asia. There are 22 extinct genera of beavers. In Pleistocene, 2 million years ago, Tr... |
29 November 2007
17:28 GMT |
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In Holland, there is a millenary struggle between man and the sea. 700 years ago, on the western shore of the Netherlands the Zuider Zee (Southern Sea) gulf was formed, which flooded hundreds of cities. In 1420, the Meuse River broke the dams at the south of Dardrecht and the waters swallowed 70 villages, leaving ove... |
17 May 2007
16:31 GMT |
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Methane is a greenhouse effect gas 20 times more powerful than CO2.Fortunately, the emission of methane is reduced compared to that of CO2; but even so, its emissions are on a boom, due to human activity. Now a Brazilian team at National Space Research Institute (INPE) has found a way to cut off methane emission from... |
14 May 2007
06:06 GMT |
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