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  • What tree rings reveal about climate change in the Amazon
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  • Zanskar to supply 100 MW of geothermal power to Amazon data centres

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news.mongabay.com /2 weeks ago

What tree rings reveal about climate change in the Amazon

In 2024, the Amazon region felt the effects of one of the worst droughts in its recorded history — if not the worst. At the port of Manaus, the largest city along the course of the...

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nytimes.com /3 weeks ago

America the Undammed

More miles of the country’s rivers were reconnected last year thanks to dam removals than at any other time in history.

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thinkgeoenergy.com /2 weeks ago

Zanskar to supply 100 MW of geothermal power to Amazon data centres

Amazon will be investing in developing 100 MW of geothermal power generation for its data centres in Nevada, supplied by Zanskar through NV Energy. The post Zanskar to supply 100 M...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

In Brazil, unfinished water project leaves Indigenous villages without safe water

RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL, Brazil — Turned upside down on the dirt floor, next to an artisanal flour mill, a huge water tank catches the eye of those passing through the Bem Viver commun...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Vaupés River contamination identified near rapidly expanding Amazonian town

VAUPÉS, COLOMBIA — Traditionally, for members of the Indigenous Macaquiño community in the southeastern Colombian Amazon, the Vaupés River is not just a source of water, but a livi...

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cleantechnica.com /1 month ago

Swapping Out Diesel For Solar & Batteries In The Amazon Rainforest

Many villages in the Amazon basin have no roads, and solar and batteries are replacing diesel generators that are supplied by boat. The post Swapping Out Diesel For Solar & Bat...

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newscientist.com /1 month ago

Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon

Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the Brazilian government relaxed environmental controls

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Indigenous governance key to protecting Amazon Basin connectivity, experts say

In the southern tip of Colombia’s Cauca department, known as the “boot” for its shoe-like shape, volunteer members of an Indigenous guard patrol their territories in the Andean foo...

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news.mongabay.com /2 days ago

The Amazon’s path from crisis to durability

In the Amazon, a forest can remain on the map while losing much of what makes it function. The Amazon rainforest is often discussed through a few familiar measures: deforestation,...

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theguardian.com /1 week ago

Record number of dams dismantled in Europe in effort to help wildlife thrive

Weirs, culverts and sluices among 602 barriers demolished in year in attempt to restore 15,500 miles of rivers by 2030A few miles downstream from a lava field in western Iceland, t...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road

A strategic shift in law clears the way for a highway that scientists warn will push the Amazon to a tipping point.

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getaway.co.za /2 weeks ago

6 hydroelectric sites in Southern Africa that became travel destinations

The post 6 hydroelectric sites in Southern Africa that became travel destinations appeared first on Getaway Magazine.

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theecologist.org /1 month ago

A reckoning in the Amazon 

A reckoning in the Amazon  Channel News brendan 18th April 2026 Teaser Media

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theguardian.com /1 month ago

‘If they pollute our rivers, what will become of us?’: the town divided between hope and fear in Brazil’s Amazon oil rus...

As a state-controlled company explores for oil in the fragile Equatorial Margin the government struggles to balance its ecological promises with fossil fuel expansion. In Oiapoque,...

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enr.com /1 month ago

Hanson Dam Project Secures $691 Million for Upgrades and Other Industry News

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $691-million contract for the Howard A. Hanson Dam Additional Water Storage Fish Passage Facility in Washington state to a FlatironDr...

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theguardian.com /1 month ago

‘We took clothes, a blanket and a dog’: the people displaced by a dam 50 years ago, but still fighting for justice

The Avá-Guarani community have received little recognition of the destruction of their land by the Itaipu dam on the Paraguay-Brazil borderWhen the Indigenous leader Teodoro Alves...

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archdaily.com /3 weeks ago

Muyunafest 2025 Main Floating Stage / Espacio Común

During the rising of the Itaya River in May 2025, Espacio Común, in collaboration with residents of Belén in Iquitos, built a floating stage for Muyuna Fest, a film festival that d...

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news.mongabay.com /3 weeks ago

Solar installation and deforestation in the Amazon: Photo of the week

In August 2025, photojournalist Victor Moriyama captured this scene on the outskirts of Rio Branco, the capital of Acre, a state in the far northwest of the Brazilian Amazon. As a...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

The Amazon’s silent crime crisis (commentary)

The Amazon is approaching a dangerous threshold. Long understood as the world’s largest tropical forest and a critical regulator of the global climate, its future is increasingly s...

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news.mongabay.com /5 days ago

Countries push new protections for the Amazon’s iconic migratory catfish

The background was right for the announcement of the bad news. Fish swam in a wall-sized tank that framed a table of scientists and environmentalists in the auditorium of the Panta...

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vtdigger.org /1 month ago

After the dams: flood mitigation, fish passage, and whitewater rafting?

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pbs.org /3 weeks ago

Brazil gold mining rush brings deforestation and mercury risks to the Amazon

SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving...

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brisbanetimes.com.au /1 month ago

Seven spectacular highlights of the world’s largest river

The almighty Amazon flows from the heights of the snow-capped Andean Mountains and rushes through Peru, Brazil and Colombia before pouring into the Atlantic Ocean, 6400 kilometres...

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thediplomat.com /1 month ago

India’s Worrying Plans for Dams on Transboundary Rivers Shared with Bangladesh 

At least seven hydroelectric projects on two transboundary river systems are in the pipeline in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya.

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