Tishreen Dam on Euphrates River. Source: www.geosense.com A month-long intense clashes and recent aerial bombardment of the areas adjacent to Tishreen Dam on Euphrates River, as well as mutual accusations accompanying this conflict, vividly remind us the period before the blasting of Kakhovka Dam on Dnipro River in June 2023. …
The Kariba Reservoir on Zambezi River shared by Zimabawe and Zambia has long suffered from the lack of water and threatened to leave population without electricity. It finally happened in 2024, when the biggest reservoir in the world holding 185 cubic kilometers of water, pactically stopped generating any meaningful amount …
As Russian Government is dreaming to restore Soviet Union it seeks to revive most bizarre and harmful infrastructure projects conceived and even partly built during the XX century. Some of those are large dams on still free flowing rivers. Even now, when civil freedoms are suppressed and punished, local activists …
by Munkhnaran Bayarlkhagva The Erdeneburen project would displace hundreds of herder families. (VWPics via AP) As China marked the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative with leaders from participating nations in October, President Xi Jinping declared that the program had begun prioritizing smaller and greener projects. The Chinese leader …
Officials in Russia’s Irkutsk region in southeastern Siberia have publicly denounced activists seeking to block a controversial bill that would ease logging restrictions along the shores of Lake Baikal. In an open letter, 34 regional officials, including six mayors, accused environmental activists of waging a cyberbullying campaign and inciting “inter-social …
By LORI HINNANT, SAM McNEIL and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam was a fast-moving disaster that is swiftly evolving into a long-term environmental catastrophe affecting drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching into the Black Sea. The short-term dangers can be seen from outer space …
