“Traffic jams” of boats and floating houses on the dry bed of Lake Puraquequara, in the outskirts of Manaus: a combination of climate change, a strong El Niño and insistence on works with a huge environmental impact contribute to an unprecedented and extremely urgent condition in the region.
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A combination of climate change, a strong El Niño and an insistence on works of enormous impact are contributing to an unprecedented and extremely urgent situation in the region
The Seli’š Ksanka Qlispe’ Dam provides enough electricity for about 147,000 homes in the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.
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How does flowing water make electricity? An engineer explains hydroelectric generation.
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To get to 82% renewables by decade’s end means storage - and that’s where we hope our new atlas of sites for pumped hydro storage can help
The sluice gates open at the Owen Falls dam across the White Nile in Uganda on 14 October 1962.
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The mega dam in Jinja was meant to give Uganda energy independence, but this was constrained by Britain’s agricultural interests in Egypt.
Tumut 3 pumped storage hydropower station, NSW.
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Pumped hydro offers us large scale energy storage. If we do it carefully, we can make sure these dams don’t cause the damage of the past.
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If South Africa fails to implement the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan, it will lead to the demise of Eskom as an energy producer as users turn to alternative electricity sources.
Lake Powell’s water level has been falling amid a two-decade drought. The white ‘bathtub ring’ on the canyon walls marks the decline.
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Climate change is affecting hydropower in different ways across the country.
Motorists drive at night on a road without street light as Nigeria struggles with power outages in a commercial district of Lagos.
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Nigeria’s national electricity grid has collapsed more than 200 times since 2010, regularly resulting in widespread blackouts.
A photo of Lake Pedder before it flooded.
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In an effort to save Lake Pedder from a hydro-electricity scheme, the world’s first political party with a foundation in environmental values was formed in Tasmania.
Indigenous activists have long been protesting the Belo Monte complex.
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Diverting water to a hydroelectric dam might seem eco-friendly, but the devastating consequences to local ecosystems cannot be ignored.
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The world hydropower industry has public relations work to do, if its global expansion is to be realised. But stringent oversight is urgently needed.
People survey the damage from a flash flood at the Dhauliganga hydropower project.
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Dams built in an earlier age are suddenly vulnerable as the climate shifts.
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Rather than considering the job done, Tasmania should seize opportunities including renewable energy, net-zero industrial exports and forest preservation.
Batteries used in Spanish energy storage tests.
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Britain’s electricity sector continues to decarbonise, but its capacity to store energy lags far behind.
Distributed power generation, such as this fuel cell installation, requires new ventures to work with energy regulators.
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A study points to one way to speed up adoption of innovations in clean energy technology – more flexibility among state regulators.
Dangerous winds batter the south coast of England.
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Wind travels all over the world. Where does it come from, and why?
The Ganges delta spans India and Bangladesh and is home to more than 100m people.
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Sea levels are rising, while deltas are being starved of sediment by upstream dams.
Land Protectors Jenelle Duval, Susan Oralik, Vicki Allen and Amelia Reimer (left to right) look on as Denise Cole beats the drum on the steps of the Confederation Building in St. John’s on Tuesday, Oct.25, 2016 during a Muskrat Falls demonstration.
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A $12.7 billion investment in hydroelectricity has put Canada’s economic welfare and its moral credibility on the line.
Damning development.
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When the Aral Sea dried up, it was called the “world’s worst environmental disaster”. We’re witnessing its equivalent in Africa.
Suncor’s base plant with upgraders in the oil sands in Fort McMurray Alta., June 13, 2017.
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Canada’s proposed new environmental assessment law is facing heated, if not necessarily well-informed, opposition. The real question is whether it goes far enough.