Best of 2020: Hydropower leaves cracked houses across Bhutan
January 02, 2021
Rural communities have found cracks developing in their homes as continuous blasting for construction of hydropower projects takes place nearby
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January 02, 2021
Rural communities have found cracks developing in their homes as continuous blasting for construction of hydropower projects takes place nearby
December 26, 2020
Spiralling costs, long delays, earthquakes and landslide risks plague developers trying to build hydropower projects in the Indian Himalayan states
November 05, 2020
The long anticipated resurrection of a controversial dam on the upper Yangtze river in western China is the latest sign that the nation’s once-robust environmental movement is being muzzled by the government’s crackdown on NGOs and its near-total control over social media
October 30, 2020
Building bumper-to-bumper dams increases disaster risks in the region
October 21, 2020
Villagers in the northern Indian state say they have been left out of a crucial decision on the second and third stage of a hydropower project with huge environmental risks
August 25, 2020
Experts wonder why a bill riddled with errors has been tabled in the upper house of parliament
August 06, 2020
Dam construction threatens tens of thousands of rock engravings in the Chilas valley in northern Pakistan; some carvings date back to 8,000 BCE.
July 24, 2020
The Baglihar dam in Jammu and Kashmir bears testimony to the enormous human costs associated with hydroelectricity projects
July 22, 2020
As India’s hydropower hotspot, Himachal Pradesh offers important lessons about the huge risks of building large dams in the Himalayas
July 17, 2020
Saif M Hussain, an expert on structural engineering with a focus on seismic risks, describes his concerns over Pakistan’s largest proposed dam