A $100 million project removing dams and helping fish route around others is returning a badly endangered salmon to spring-fed waters in northernmost California, giving cold-loving native fish a life-saving place to chill ...
Ecology
Mar 9, 2018
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One year after the worst structural failures at a major U.S. dam in a generation, federal regulators who oversee California's half-century-old, towering Oroville Dam say they are looking hard at how they overlooked its built-in ...
Environment
Feb 11, 2018
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Dams drive local extinction risk of native fish in the southern United States, according to a study by Florida International University.
Environment
Feb 8, 2018
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In the 1980s and 1990s parts of Africa saw a surge in dam building for energy production. After a brief hiatus there has been renewed interested. Many new construction projects are planned and underway across sub-Saharan ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 12, 2018
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Stanford historian Mikael Wolfe argues that technology and nature are usually thought of as opposites, but he advocates for what is known as an envirotech approach to the historical relationship between the two – technology ...
Environment
Jan 3, 2018
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In the Pacific Northwest, the conversation about hydroelectric dams is complicated: Dams hamper the natural migration of salmon, yet they are an important source of cheap, renewable energy for the region.
Environment
Dec 14, 2017
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A United Nations report just launched says mining companies can simply reduce environmental destruction and death by changing the way they store and manage mine waste.
Environment
Nov 15, 2017
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The Pantanal in central South America may not be as globally famous as the Amazon rainforest, but it has the continent's highest concentration of wildlife. Now, however, the region's endangered plants and animals, along with ...
Environment
Nov 7, 2017
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The environmental impact of hydropower generation in the Amazon may be greater than predicted, according to new University of Stirling research.
Environment
Oct 19, 2017
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When it's raining on the roads, slopes of road dust and contaminants drain into the trenches. What impact does it have on wildlife living by the road?
Environment
Oct 16, 2017
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