A few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from an engineering firm in Pakistan. Out of the blue, the firm offered me the contract to build the Hingol Dam and four similar projects.
Peter Bosshard | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Scientists agree that dams can trigger earthquakes. A new paper presents evidence that the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan Province in 2008, was triggered by the Zipingpu Dam.
Lori Pottinger | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
It's been a bad week for dams - and a very good one for the world's rivers. Here's to the activists in Australia and Mexico who fought so well to protect their rivers.
Patrick McCully | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
The drop in emissions means that we are already more than halfway to the goal of the cap-and-trade bill passed by the House of Representatives of a 17% cut from 2005 to 2020.
Peter Bosshard | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Some Westerns say China is only interested in exploiting Africa's resources, at the cost of the environment and human rights. So what about China's role in Africa?
Peter Bosshard | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
China and the world cannot afford more boondoggles in the mold of the Three Gorges Dam. A public discussion of the project's costs and benefits is now needed.
Patrick McCully | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
This is intellectual vandalism in keeping with the know-nothing, no-tax tendencies of the teabagging conservatives, but surely not of UC Berkeley administrators.
Lori Pottinger | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
The world's richest, highest-carbon-emitting nations owe it to Africa to help it develop its clean energy resources -- projects that will help in climate-change adaptation efforts, rather than hinder them.
Patrick McCully | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Bad news about climate disasters has been coming so depressingly thick and fast of late that major catastrophes are now going almost unnoticed by the US media.
Lori Pottinger | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
Poorer nations looking to California for ideas in dealing with vexing water problems should leapfrog over our tarnished model of destroyed rivers, crumbling infrastructure, and contentious solutions to the mess.
Lori Pottinger | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
Diversifying Africa's energy sector would help its climate-adaptation efforts in key ways: it would de-emphasize reliance on erratic rainfall for electricity, reduce conflict over water resources, and protect river-based ecosystems.
Lori Pottinger | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
Healthy rivers are important for so many reasons, and climate change will only make their gifts that much more important. We need to convince hydropower advocates of the destructiveness of dams.
David Sassoon | Posted 05.18.2009 | Green
Allowing polluting companies to keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere by paying others to reduce emission is a practice analagous to trying to lose weight by paying someone else to go on a diet.
Peter Bosshard | Posted 11.23.2009 | World