Sumidouro: Good-Bye River
This award-winning film examines the lives of 5000 people from 42 riverside communities a year after they have been displaced by the construction of the Irapé Dam and hydroelectric power plant in Brazil.
This award-winning film examines the lives of 5000 people from 42 riverside communities a year after they have been displaced by the construction of the Irapé Dam and hydroelectric power plant in Brazil.
This film explores the issues facing the Colorado River Basin due to increased pressure from population growth, and the effect on an already decreasing water supply.
The film examines the social and ecological consequences of the Turkey’s South-East-Anatolia-Project (GAP), designed to enable energy production and irrigation on a huge scale.
This article reflects on the Knechtsand, a sandbank in the estuary of the Weser, that served as a bombing range for the British and American air forces stationed in England in 1952. It examines the locals’ protests historically and uncovers strands of tradition that are hugely significant for our understanding of the Wadden Sea and the expanding conservation regime.
The proposed O’Shaughnessy Dam in the Hetch Hetchy Valley of Yosemite National Park precipitated a national environmental debate from 1908 to 1913. In 1913 the congress permitted construction and it was completed in 1923.
The first Edison hydroelectric power plant in North America is established in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1882.
Despite preventing the dam in Echo National Park, the Sierra Club failed to recognize the scenic, historic, and ecological value of Glen Canyon. This mistake boosted the modern environmental movement.
Paisaje del Río Bogotá (Colombia) S.A. The landscape of the Bogotá River. One of the riverbanks is planted entirely with eucalyptus. (Photograph by Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez. © Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango.)
Paisaje del Río Bogotá (Colombia) S.A. The landscape of the Bogotá River. One of the riverbanks is planted entirely with eucalyptus. (Photograph by Gumersindo Cuéllar Jiménez. © Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango.)
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The pollution of the Cuyahoga River was so severe that over the years the toxic waste caught fire numerous times. One specific fire in 1969 was reported upon by the Time Magazine and played a strong part in the movement towards cleansing the waterways nationwide.