#Canada
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/earth-from-space-massive-landslide-dams-canadian-river-trapping-endangered-fish-on-the-wrong-side
Earth from space: Massive #landslide #dams #Canadian #river, trapping endangered fish on the wrong side
Authorities in Libya’s city of Derna told people to stay indoors as a massive storm hit, before two dams burst and sent a catastrophic torrent of water towar...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Authorities #Derna #StormDaniel #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #burst #catastrophe #catastrophic #dams #disaster #flood #indoors #latestnews #massive #newsheadlines #people #rain #stay #storm #torrent #unfolded #water
How Libya’s flood catastrophe unfolded | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Tribes Are Leading the Way to Remove Dams and Restore Ecosystems
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/07/14/tribes-remove-dams-restore-ecosystems
When the Elwha River dams fell, it was the culmination of many decades of successful partnerships among the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and dozens of other local and national organizations. Today, those partnerships continue to support the tribe in righting historic wrongs.
#nature #environment #dams #dam #removal #rivers #watershed #waterways #Indigenous #peoples #advocacy #activism #yesmagazine
Save The Mekong
Great photography of the Mekong River, and its people 👌👏❤ A strong blog
via Scientists for the Mekong : Analyst: The Mekong is a Chance for China to Improve Its Soft Power Footprint
Important excerpts by Brian Eyler, director of the Stimson Center’s Southeast Asia program (6 April 2018):
"China, as well, previously wanted to purchase a lot of power from the Mekong basin. That’s no longer the case. In fact, #China
wants to #sell #power from Yunnan province to other #Mekong #countries. So that puts the whole #hydropower venture in the Lower
#Mekong under #question: Do we really #need all of these #dams? Is the #demand for those dams going to be there? Dams
development on the mainstream or the tributaries is driven by the demand for power from the other parts of the Mekong region."
"There are #communities of tens of thousands of people all the way through the basin that #utilize the #river #banks for #agricultural
purposes, and that contributes to the #important part of their #livelihoods. But when #China #releases the #water from #upstream
#dams in the dry season, just like China did two weeks ago, you have #sudden #floods that can #wash out the #fields that are
beginning to sprout #vegetables and other crops, wash away #livestock and #machinery. These unexpected floods also #impact
critical #animal and #bird species that make #habitats along the #riverside during the #dry #season."
"The Council Study (by the MRC) confirms how the #greatest #impacts come from #hydropower even compared to the impacts of
climate change. So we have to think about energy, and we need to work on #alternative #energy #development solutions because
the technology is here now to make that change. I am talking about solar, wind, and decentralized distribution and transmission
processes that can help shave down peak demands, reduce the needs for so much power, bring the power to the people who need
it more quickly, and help the country industrialize."
Let us Pray they stay alive 🙏🙏🙏
Three new Irrawaddy dolphin calves born in 2018. Great news. But, will they survive past 2 y.o.? Remains to be seen. All previous calves have died because of organochlorides, pesticides and other pollutants in fish & water, which damaged their immune systems leading to fatal diseases - according to 5 years research by Dr Verne Dove...
Let us remind the reader thst Dr. Dove was expelled from Cambodia for publishing her results...
Irrawaddy dolphins have long life spans. Hence, the present population consists of adult dolphins.
It's great that the Cambodian government has reduced gillnets and harm to the dolphins. However, if they really wanted to protect this species from #extinction they ought to be implementing strong measures to reduce water pollution and should not go ahead with the construction of the Stung Treng Dam & Sambor Dam as these will "sandwich" the dolphins confining them to a very small area and reducing substantially the species of fish they depend on for survival.
Yet another long-term study found that: #Hydropower dams negatively impact the #Hydromorphology (water flows, course, banks) of #Rivers and #Streams => That is, both Hydropower construction and changes in #water levels: result in changes in the "riparian zones" of streams and rivers & were shown to significantly impact: food webs, shading & water temperature - which, in turn, impact and change invertebrates & fish populations. In other words, DON'T build #Dams - they damage the water flow, the banks, the aquatic animals and the humans that depend on them.
And this study was in #Sweden. Imagine the damage multiplied 1,000-fold in the tropics!
LINK: Untangling multiple pressure impacts in Swedish boreal streams
How New #Dams in #Amazon Put Entire #World at #Risk
Do you really know how important the intact Amazon is for the #rainforests, #humans (also for #indigenous people...) and #animals there? Do you know what the Amazon basin means to the world and its climate?
Wie neue #Dämme am #Amazonas die ganze #Welt in #Gefahr bringen
Weisst Du eigentlich, wie wichtig der intakte Amazonas für die #Regenwälder, #Menschen (auch für Indigene...) und #Tiere dort ist? Weisst Du, was das #Amazonsbecken für die Welt und ihr Klima bedeutet?
Find out how an increase in hydropower from a series of over 400 planned dams could harm the Amazon Rainforest.
LINK: How New Dams in Amazon Put Entire World at Risk
via International Rivers: "Dams and #mining go hand-in-hand in the #Amazon...and they will take this #vital #ecosystem down if we don't stop them."
LINK: Unexamined synergies: dam building and mining go together in the Amazon
Would more or other, even better efforts (as, for example, looking at the #MRC activities) "move something", help?
"[...] That’s why there’s growing academic desire for an increased awareness of not just #hydro_politics, but #hydro_diplomacy – that while #water presents obvious potential conflict, it could also accelerate #global #cooperation. [...]"
LINK: The most important resource of the century - why hydro politics will shape the 21st century
Radio Resistance Podcast on the "#Mekong #River Ecocide": an Overview of the Social-Economic-Geopolitical-Ecological impacts of #Hydropower #Dams in the Mekong Basin (done for an audience that knows zilch about the subject in the USA and worldwide).
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yw2sb-6887c4
Resistance Radio - Dr. Lilliana Corredor - 03.12.17"
#Mekong #südostasien #PDRLaos #Laos #Vietnam #cambodia #Kambodscha #Thailand #Staudamm #Hydropover #cop21 #Mekongdelta #stoppthedonsahongdam #stopdonsahong #SEA #laoyouth #mekongyouth #MRC #Lancang #tamui #Xayaburi #Sesan #Srepok #Sekong #Sambor #CEPF #UN #MENSCHENRECHTE #OXFAM #NGO #WWF #SALINITY #UNICEFWATER #ENERGY #KHMER #VIETNAMESE #CHINESE #THAI #DROUGHT #ELNINIO #TIEN #HAU #FLOODS #UNICEF #CLIMATE #WORLDBANK #FYI #BAIRD #PETITION #Siphandone #methane #delta #DGD16 #health #USAID #biodiversity
