Geologists are once again debating whether dam construction in China has led to a proliferation of earthquakes. Read more »
“We made mistakes”: the lessons of US dam removals
Asian hydropower advocates point to dammed-to-the-hilt America as a reason to press ahead with controversial plans. But the US is still spending time and money undoing the damage of the past. Read more »
Residents struggle in China’s “model community” as millions set to be resettled
Around 2.8 million people are to be moved to new towns in Shaanxi Province, linked, in part, to the south-north water transfer project. But without land or job opportunities, many are finding their new life to be harder than before. Read more »
China’s risky overseas dam building in Burma and beyond
China is grappling with the social and environmental risks of building 300 dams in 66 countries, with a large number in south-east Asia. Read more »
Central Asia attempts to revive the Aral Sea
The drying up of the Aral Sea is an environmental and human tragedy. Can the region now reverse this man-made disaster? Read more »
As Indian policymakers join Rio+20, anti dam activists arrested
While policy makers, experts, and activists meet for the UN conference Rio + 20 this week, thousands of miles away in north-east India’s Assam state, 22 farmers are languishing in the Lakhimpur jail for taking up cudgels to protect the environment. Read more »
Unquiet flows the Ganga
The Ganga is India’s holiest river but also one of its dirtiest. Now 70 planned hydro projects on the river’s upper reaches have provoked yet more confrontation between environmentalists and a power-hungry India. Joydeep Gupta reports. Read more »