With the construction of the 'Three Gorges Dam' and the accompanying largest power station in the world, China has ensured ...

A detailed extinction assessment of more than 23,000 species of freshwater fauna by the International Union for Conservation of Nature identified major threats from pollution, dams, agriculture ...

As China’s economy has developed, pollution in the Yangtze and its lakes has multiplied – particularly from industries and agriculture, including large-scale fish and pig farming. Dams are a big issue ...

Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But pollution, dams and removal of too much water (mostly for agriculture) have affected the flow and health of ...

And it found river water heated by dams to temperatures lethal to migrating salmon would not be sufficiently cooled by actions under consideration. The Clean Water Act requires the federal government ...

These dams are notorious death zones ... “I do plan to consider the potential for behavioral effects from pharmaceutical pollution.” Further study will clarify how behavioral changes from ...

“Pharmaceutical pollution is this sort of invisible agent ... becomes rapids and then courses through two hydropower dams before discharging into the Baltic Sea. They conducted their experiment ...

In the 1960s, air pollution in America posed a serious health ... from the effects of massive hydropower projects. When four dams were built on the lower Snake River in Idaho in the 1960s, they ...

Habitat loss, water pollution, dams and nonnative invasive Asian clams threaten Kentucky creekshell mussels. Development from Bowling Green, the third-largest city in Kentucky, has filled the mussels’ ...