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UN delegation visits Central America`s largest rainforest, Panama`s La Amistad, threatened by dams
Conservation groups from Panama, Costa Rica, and the United States are preparing to meet with a delegation from the World Heritage Centre and World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Panama to discuss threats to La Amistad International Park. La Amistad is a World Heritage site shared by Panama and Costa Rica that protects the largest, most diverse virgin rainforest remaining in Central America. It is ...
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EPM studies asset sales to meet dam disaster costs
Municipally owned Colombian utility group EPM has announced it is studying the sale of up to COP3 trillion ($1 billion) in local and international assets to meet the costs of an environmental and human emergency at its Hidroituango hydroelectric dam project. Announcing the board’s approval of the sale plan this week, the company stressed that it has cash reserves of COP1.4 trillion ($483 ...
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Brazil’s dammed rainforest
The Belo Monte Dam hydroelectric complex, on the Xingu River in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, is due to be completed in 2019. Photographer Daniel Beltrá visited the area. His pictures, part of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition hosted by the Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom, show how the local environment has been affected by the industrial activities ...
By SciDev.Net
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Mexico’s Uncovered Church and How to Monitor Reservoir Water
The stunning ruin of the 16th century structure has been hidden under 100ft of water since 1966. The church dates back to 1564 when it was built in anticipation of a population increase, but when the plague struck between 1773 and 1776, the church was left abandoned. Architect Carlos Navarettes commented on the building, saying: ‘It was a church built thinking that this could be a great ...
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Latest Federal Plan for Columbia Salmon Challenged
Conservation groups and salmon advocates have challenged the Obama administration's latest plan for making Columbia Basin dams safe for salmon. The challenge was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service, which oversees salmon protection, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, ...
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Brazil greenhouse gas emissions lowest in 20 years
Emission levels of greenhouse gases in Latin America's biggest country fell last year to their lowest in two decades, a Brazilian network of environmental groups said in a report released Thursday. The Observatorio do Clima, or Climate Observatory, network is comprised of more than 30 non-governmental organizations focused on climate change. It said greenhouse gas emissions amounted to 1.48 ...
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Costa Rican scientists trial aquatic agriculture to boost food security
Costa Rican researchers are pioneering 'aquatic agriculture' — the method of growing crops on freshwater lakes and reservoirs — to boost food security in the developing world. The technique involves creating floating rafts on which vegetables, grains and flowers can be grown. Terrestrial crops such as grains and vegetables have their roots directly in the water or can be potted, with ...
By SciDev.Net
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Florida Gulf Coast University chooses LG Sonic technology to control algal blooms
To control algae, FGCU’S Everglades Wetland Research Park in Naples will use LG Sonic’s MPC-Buoy systems. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection awarded FGCU’s Everglades Wetland Research Park in Naples the grant to run a pilot project. Director Bill Mitsch says “It’s a big grant. It sounds awesome because it’s a million-dollar grant”. The ...
By LG Sonic
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Report: Climate change causing energy disruptions
Climate change and extreme weather already are causing disruptions in the U.S. energy supply that are likely to worsen as more intense storms, higher temperatures and more frequent droughts occur, the government says in a new report. The report, released Thursday by the Energy Department, says blackouts and other problems caused by Superstorm Sandy and other extreme weather events are likely ...
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A new roadshow for Dragflow all around Europe
New year, new roadshow for Dragflow all around Europe and beyond. In the next weeks the company, a world player in solid pumping solutions with over 25 years of experience, will take part to five exhibitions: Agrotica, Dams&Hydroelectric plant, MCE, Smopyc Expo, IFAT and Samoter. Dragflow will present its wide range of products, completely designed, manufactured and tested by its technicians ...
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Drought Poses major risks to companies in China
Reduced power, blocked supply chains are reminder of water risks. For the last five months, a severe drought in central China has brought water levels in the Yangtze River to near-record lows. The drought’s impacts – from threatened drinking water supplies to disruptions in manufacturing – have rippled through the population and economy of China. They are a reminder of the ...
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China Falls Short of Stated Environmental Goals
BEIJING, China (ENS) - China has 'flunked the first test' in meeting the energy saving and environmental protection goals stated in its current five-year plan, the 'China Daily' newspaper said today. The target set for 2006 was to reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by four percent and to cut polluting emissions by two percent but according to a new report, only Beijing and five other ...
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Klamath Tribes and feds exercise water rights
Tens of thousands of acres in Oregon's drought-stricken Klamath Basin will have to go without irrigation water this summer after the Klamath Tribes and the federal government exercised newly confirmed powers that put the tribes in the driver's seat over water use - a move ranchers fear will be economically disastrous. Klamath Tribes Chairman Don Gentry and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner ...
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Historic deal for Corps dam pollution
For the first time in its history, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will have to disclose the amount of pollutants its dams are sending into waterways in a groundbreaking legal settlement that could have broad implications for the Corps' hundreds of dams nationwide. The Corps announced in a settlement Monday that it will immediately notify the conservation group that filed the lawsuit of any ...
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Upscaling Possibilities of Blue Energy in the Light of rhe New Green Deal, May 2020
Peter Hack, the founder of REDstack, Rik Siebers, the Director of REDstack and Frank Neumann of IMIEU met in an online video conference with a representation of the Cabinet Timmermans (o.a. Mr. Diederik Samsom) on 5 May 2020, discussing possibilities within the New Green Deal for the upscaling of the RED salinity gradient ...
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SEC regulations could bring oil revenue transparency to Uganda
Now twice delayed during the public comment and rule-drafting periods, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is due to release regulations for Section 1504 of the Wall Street Reform Act in late August. Recent developments in Uganda’s oil industry have made the release of these transparency provisions more urgent than ever. Oil production is not scheduled to begin in Uganda ...
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Climate change can dry south Indian river, says new study
Climate change could lead to huge water shortages in southern India’s fertile Godavari river basin, a new study based on computer simulations shows. The study by scientists from India and Norway, started in February 2009, is part of several compiled into a book, 'Water and Climate Change: an integrated approach to adaptation challenges', released last month (1 February). The study ...
By SciDev.Net
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Oil boom prompts US to push for crude exports
Oil and coal producers in the US are planning to use mile-long tanker trains to transport vast quantities of fossil fuels to the coast through areas that environmental groups believe should be protected. The change in world fossil fuel production, consumption and costs caused by tar sands exploitation in Canada and the fracking boom in the US is causing what Bill McKibbon − author, ...
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Joint paper on the Action for Biodiversity in the EU and the Fitness Check of the Birds and Habitats Directives
BatLife Europe, BirdLife Europe, Buglife-The Invertebrate Conservation Trust, Butterfly Conservation Europe, CEEweb for Biodiversity, ClientEarth, EUROPARC Federation, European Environmental Bureau (EEB), European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC), European Natural Heritage Foundation (Euronatur), Eurosite, Fern, Friends of the Earth Europe, Oceana, International Mire Conservation Group ...
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Canada wants more from US under Columbia treaty
Canada says the U.S. should pay more in hydropower for getting recreational and other benefits under an international treaty governing operations of the fourth-largest river in North America. The U.S., however, has recommended the opposite. It wants to send less hydropower across the border if the Columbia River treaty is renegotiated. The treaty dates to 1964 and has no expiration date. But as ...
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