Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Mongabay
Feb 28, 2018, 1:06 pm187 pts
The Marañón River flows though the Peruvian Andes, and is a major Amazon River tributary. The Peruvian government is planning to build several major dams on the river, though the projects are fiercely opposed by many local riverine communities. Photo by Gato Montes on Wikimedia CC-BY 3.0 The scale of…

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