The Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat have been notified by Lao Government of their plans to build the Pak Beng Dam on the Lao Lower Mekong...
Yesterday a coalition of investors backed the business and human rights benchmark, campaigners are calling on Kingfisher to raise the wages of B&Q employees, and ecobuild...
The Brazilian Government want to build a minimum of five mega-dams on the Tapajos River where 12,000 Munduruku Indigenous Peoples live. The river, in the heart...
Rampant dam-building across Amazonia will cause countless species extinctions – according to new research involving the University of East Anglia.The nine countries that share the Amazonian...
If the World Bank does not abandon its focus on “dirty” energy projects, governments should move global energy finance away from the organisation, according to a...
Not all renewable energy projects are truly ethical developments, as a couple of hydropower developments in South America show. There are plenty of good reasons to...
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest may significantly decrease the amount of electricity produced from hydropower in the region, scientists have warned. A new study published in...