Brazil bet big on a mega river dam using old data, but climate change is leaving its massive turbines high and dry.
HUMAITÁ, Brazil — The Madeira Basin, the most biodiverse region in the Amazon River Basin, boasts 1,406 catalogued species. However, this ecological richness is under threat from human activities and ...
Entanglement in fishing nets and habitat loss are the greatest threats to dolphins. River dolphin populations are severely fragmented due to the building of dams. Some subpopulations of dolphins are ...
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the world’s largest, was designed to channel water from the Xingu River in a way that would avoid the need for large ...
The Amazon basin houses over three million species in its rainforest ecosystem, with over 2,500 tree species creating and sustaining this vibrant environment. One in ten known species in the world ...
When dams are built they have an impact not only on the flow of water in the river, but also on the people who live downstream and on the surrounding ecosystems. By placing data from close to 6,500 ...
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the world’s largest, was designed to channel water from the Xingu River in a way that would avoid the need for large ...
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