Damns

The shadows of Amazon dams

Monica Piccinini

| 20th May 2025

COP30 Spotlight: counting the cost of Amazon hydropower to local indigenous communities.
Dams: development or control?

Khadija Sharife

| 1st June 2009

The vast dams clogging the veins of Africa are instruments of control rather than promised hydroelectric liberation. Khadija Sharife investigates.

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