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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dried-up Colorado takes toll on giant Mexican fish]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Colorado River vanishes before it reaches the Sea of Cortez in all but the wettest years. Companies in California and the southwestern U.S. have diverted its once-vibrant flow to quench their thirst for water and power. Now, a new study in the April 2008 issue of the journal Biological Conservation reports that the dwindling of this major artery has changed the way some marine fish in the Gulf of California grow and develop.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0608-ucsc_cannon_totoaba.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will earthquake slow dam-building spree in China?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Monday's 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province left more than 15,000 dead, 26,000 missing, and 64,000 injured, according to state media.  The quake also "seriously damaged" two hydroelectric stations in Maoxian county, leading authorities to warn that the dams could burst.  More than 2,000 troops were sent to work on the Zipingku Dam, a dam said to be in "great danger" of collapse upriver from Dujiangyan, the city at the quake's epicenter.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-china.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Judge suspends Amazon dam project due to legal questions]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A Brazilian judge has issued a restraining order on a controversial dam in the Amazon basin, reports International Rivers, a conservation group.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0430-xingu.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dams mask sea level rise]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Water held in man-made reservoirs is masking the true extent of sea level rise from melting ice and thermal expansion, report scientists writing in the journal <i>Science</i>.  The researchers, from the National Central University in Taiwan, calculate that sea levels would be 30 mm (1.2 inches) higher without water stored behind dams.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0313-sea_levels.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Controversial dam in the Amazon gets Brazilian go-ahead]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian government has awarded rights to build and operate a controversial R$10bn hydroelectric power plant on the Madeira river in the Amazon rainforest near the border with Bolivia, according to FT.com.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1211-brazil.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China begins blocking river for second largest dam]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[China began damming the Jinsha River for its biggest hydroelectric project after the Three Gorges Project, reports Chinese state media.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1112-china.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Central Africa's 'Most Beautiful Waterfall' to be destroyed]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[One of Africa's most dramatic waterfalls will be destroyed by a hydroelectric project in Gabon, according to reports from a Gabonese NGO and the Inter Press Service (IPS).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1104-gabon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[South American development plan could destroy the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A plan to link South America's economies through a series of infrastructure projects, could destroy much of the Amazon rainforest, warns a new study by conservationists.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1003-ci_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dams can pose security risk to Africa]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Floods are the most destructive, most frequent and most costly natural disasters on earth. And they are getting worse. In recent weeks, 14 African nations have seen their worst floods in decades. More than a million people have been affected, over 200 drowned, and countless others made homeless across the continent. At least some of this suffering was preventable.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1004-irn.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Environmental, safety concerns mount over China's Three Gorges Dam]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Environmental problems are worse than anticipated at China's massive Three Gorges Dam, reports the <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>.  A year after its completion, there are rising concerns of pollution, landslides, and flooding.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0829-china.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Extinction of the Yangtze river dolphin is confirmed]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After an extensive six-week search scientists have confirmed the probable extinction of the baiji or Yangtze river dolphin.  The freshwater dolphin's extinction had been reported late last year.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0808-baiji.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[$11B Amazon rainforest dam gets initial approval]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian government has given preliminary go-ahead on a massive Amazon dam project that environmentalists and scientists say could be a potential ecological disaster.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0710-madeira.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Set back for AES on rainforest dam project in Panama]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The World Heritage Committee moved to assess threats to La Amistad International Park, a World Heritage site shared by Panama and Costa Rica, from AES Corporation's planned construction of four hydroelectric dams on the park's border.  The decision was based on an April 2007 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity and more than 30 other organizations in the United States, Panama, and Costa Rica.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0626-panama.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dam protest leaves four dead in Sudan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Four people were killed and at least 10 wounded when police dispersed a group of protesters in Sudan, reports Sapa-AFP. The domestrators had gathered to protest a dam in the Kijbar region.  Local press said that police fired on group as they tried to attack construction equipment being used to build the dam.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0614-sudan.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA monitors China's Three Gorges Dam]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Some call it the eighth wonder of world. Others say it's the next Great Wall of China. Upon completion in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam along China's Yangtze River will be the world's largest hydroelectric power generator and one of the few man-made structures so enormous that it's actually visible to the naked eye from space. NASA's Landsat satellites have provided detailed, vivid views of the dam since construction began in 1994.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0613-nasa.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil debates $11B Amazon dam project]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The eternal tension between Brazil's need for economic growth and the damage that can cause to the environment are nowhere more visible than here in this corner of the western Amazon. Now a proposal to build an $11 billion hydroelectric project here on the Madeira River, which may have the world's most diverse fish stocks, has set off a new controversy.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0610-iht.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon tribe blocks major Brazilian highway]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Indigenous Amazonians have blocked a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to protest a series of hydroelectric dams planned on the Xingu river, one of the Amazon's largest tributaries, according to Brazzil Mag and Survival International.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0608-xingu.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0608-xingu.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA['Green' dams could reduce GHG emissions]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists in Brazil have developed a way to reduce greenhouse emissions from large hydro-electric dams, according to a report from BBC News. The technology, developed by researchers at Brazil's National Space Research Institute (INPE), extracts methane from reservoir water to supplement energy produced by the dam turbines.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0514-dams.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0514-dams.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil splits environmental agency to fast-track development projects]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil will divide its environmental protection agency IBAMA into two separate entities reports Reuters.  The move is expected to speed development projects in the Amazon rainforest.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0425-brazil.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AES Corp seeks to flood rainforest World Heritage site]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[American power company AES Corporation seeks to flood sections of Panama's La Amistad World Heritage site, alleges a coalition of more than 30 environmental groups that today filed a petition against the electric utility.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0423-panama.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil to flood Amazon rainforest for hydroelectric power]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil's plans to dam two rivers in the Amazon basin to generate power threaten a treasure trove of animals and plants in a region with one of the world'apos;apos;s richest arrays of wildlife, environmentalists say.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0317-reuters.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0317-reuters.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Threats to Tropical Rivers and Lakes ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical rainforest waters are highly threatened today by hydroelectric projects, erosion from deforestation, overfishing, and poisoning from oil and chemical spills. The effects from the degradation of these waters are widespread, inflicting damage on the global economy, the environment, and local peoples..]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0608.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Human Threats to Rainforests - Hydroelectric, Poaching]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Large hydroelectric projects, funded by international aid and development organizations like the World Bank, have led to widespread forest loss. Besides inundating large tracts of rainforest (dams in the Amazon are generally ecologically inefficient because large tracts of forest are flooded due to the flatness of the basin) and killing off local wildlife, the dams have the effect of destroying aquatic habitats and affecting fish populations, displacing indigenous peoples, and adding carbon to the atmosphere (as the submerged wood rots)..]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0813.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0813.htm</guid>
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