How New Dams in Amazon Put Entire World at Risk

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By Climate News NetworkJun 29, 2017, 12:57 pm173 pts
By Tim Radford What's considered by some to be clean energy could devastate the Amazon, according to new research. A massive increase in hydropower from a series of planned Amazon dams could harm the world's most important rainforest all the way from the slopes of the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Altogether,…

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