The False Promise of Hydroelectric Dams
In part two of a series on dams, reservoirs and catastrophic failures displace and destroy whole communities and ecosystems.
In part two of a series on dams, reservoirs and catastrophic failures displace and destroy whole communities and ecosystems.
Hydroelectric power is often thought of as “green” energy, but dams have devastated river ecology and the creatures it supports—including us.
Julie Brigham-Grette has been studying climate history for decades; she gives it to us straight about what’s happening in the Arctic with warming and sea-level rise.