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New dams on Madeira River floods cause deforestation
The Monitoring Andean Amazon Project presents a new map describing the loss of forest. More than 36,100 hectares of forest have been lost because of flooding by dams, especially the Jirau dam.
Report from the Amazon: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam
Where rainforest stood, Amazon basin boom towns spring up to house workers building dams, roads, transmission lines and other infrastructure — cities like Altamira lack basic sanitation and have high crime rates.
BNDES: Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil
Brazil’s BNDES is the largest development bank in the world. It’s enormous, poorly managed pay outs to Amazon dam projects have fuelled mass corruption.
Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops
By 2040, many of Brazil‘s existing and planned hydropower projects, including those in the Tapajós basin, could become unviable as drought worsens and river flows decrease.
400+ dams could irrevocably harm Amazon ecology — but solutions exist
Dams planned for the Amazon and its tributaries could do irreversible harm to fish migrations and to wildlife — but energy solutions ranging from run-of-the-river dams to a shift to solar and wind power could safeguard the forest.