From International Rivers New Online Map Plots 140 Large Dams Planned for the Amazon An interactive online database and map launched today graphically illustrates the impacts from more than 140 large dams at various stages of planning in the Amazon Basin. This unique resource, available at www.dams-info.org, uses official sources of information to document the [...]
In Bolivia, Water and Ice Tell of Climate Change
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL for NYTimes EL ALTO, Bolivia — When the tap across from her mud-walled home dried up in September, Celia Cruz stopped making soups and scaled back washing for her family of five. She began daily pilgrimages to better-off neighborhoods, hoping to find water there. Though she has lived here for a decade [...]
Women 'bearing brunt' of climate change
By Simon Hooper for CNN “There is less water now,” says Leocadia Quispe, a 60-year-old mother, grandmother and potato farmer. Seven of her eight children have left the region, she says, because there is no way for them to make a living. Most of the men of the village have also gone, heading to the [...]
