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26 Columbia River Basin dams are targets in bull trout lawsuit
2016-07-14 02:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: More than two dozen dams operating in Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Montana are harming bull trout and violating the Endangered Species Act, an environmental group says. A federal lawsuit filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies on Monday in Portland names the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration as defendants. The alliance says the three federal agencies have failed to complete required consultations with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
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Dams, Logging, Poaching Threaten World Heritage
2016-07-13 09:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Of all the world`s unique natural areas threatened by logging, poaching, dam development and gillnet fishing, the International Union for Conservation of Nature is advising the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to place five of them on the List of Heritage in Danger. "When pressures on the planet's outstanding natural sites exceed the strong protection expected under the World Heritage Convention, additional action is needed," says Tim Badman, director of IUCN's World Heritage Programme. "The Danger...
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Is it time to think about removing dams on the Colorado River?
2016-07-02 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: The terrible drought afflicting the American West has sparked soul-searching about water management in the region. For the first time in many decades, the viability of dams and other infrastructure that supply water to cities and farms throughout the region has entered the conversation. Abrahm Lustgarten, a reporter for ProPublica, has written a new story about one of the largest dams in the US, Glen Canyon, and a recent push to open up its gates. Its a remarkable development, he says, given...
Mega Dams Remain Controversial Source of Energy
2016-06-06 05:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Although mega dams can have devastating impacts on ecosystems and indigenous communities, many of the world's poorest countries still see them as a way to fill gaping holes in their energy supplies. One such project is the Inga III dam, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The dam is a part of the larger Inga project, which when completed will be the biggest dam project in the world, almost twice as big as the Three Gorges Dam in China. In March 2014, the World Bank awarded the project...
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Unplugging the Colorado River: Could the end be near for one of the Wests biggest dams?
2016-05-23 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: WEDGED between Arizona and Utah, less than 20 miles upriver from the Grand Canyon, a soaring concrete wall nearly the height of two football fields blocks the flow of the Colorado River. There, at Glen Canyon Dam, the river is turned back on itself, drowning more than 200 miles of plasma-red gorges and replacing the Colorados free-spirited rapids with an immense lake of flat, still water called Lake Powell, the nations second-largest reserve. When Glen Canyon Dam was built in the middle of the...
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