Hundreds of new Amazon dams an “ecological experiment” on global scale

Mongabay
By Glenn SchererAug 27, 2015, 4:50 pm182 pts
A boom in dam construction is sweeping the Neotropical regions of the world. In the Amazon, the world’s largest and arguably most ecologically important river basin, hundreds of dams and reservoirs are on the drawing boards for the next few decades. Nearly every country in the region is drafting construction…

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