In Honduras, Defending Nature Is a Deadly Business
Berta Cáceres fought to protect native lands in Honduras, and paid for it with her life. She is one of hundreds of victims of a disturbing global trend, the killings of environmental activists who try to block development projects. Most believe it was that campaign, against the Agua Zarca dam on the Gualcarque River, that provided the motive for her murder, one of a rash of recent killings of environmental and social activists.
Mass evacuation below Oroville Dam as officials frantically try to make repairs before new storms
More than 100,000 people were told to evacuate because of a “hazardous situation” involving the Northern California dam’s emergency spillway.
“This is mother nature kind of kicking us”: Water released over spillway at Calif. dam
Water started flowing over an emergency spillway at the nation’s tallest dam, on Lake Oroville, for the first time Saturday after erosion damaged the Northern California dam’s main spillway.
Joy as China shelves plans to dam ‘angry river’
Environmentalists in China are celebrating after controversial plans to build a series of giant hydroelectric dams on the country’s last free-flowing river were shelved.
The Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers, Video
Though large hydropower projects are often presented as a “clean and green” source of energy, nothing could be further from the truth.