How a Dam Building Boom Is Transforming the Brazilian Amazon

Yale e360
Sep 26, 2017, 6:00 am114 pts
Brazil is in the midst of a hydropower construction boom that is inundating large areas of rainforest and driving indigenous people from their lands — all while failing to fully develop the country’s vast potential for solar and wind energy. Read more on E360 →

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