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- China rescuers dig with bare hands
- HANWANG, China -- Soldiers rushed to shore up a dam cracked by this week's powerful earthquake, and rescuers came by helicopter and ship Wednesday into the isolated epicenter but still were forced to dig for survivors with their bare hands. Nearly 26,000 people remained buried in collapsed buildings...
- Research articles 2008-05-15
- Iraq: small fry thrive as Al-Qaeda big fish flee
- KHIDR, Iraq AFP — The Sunni Arab sheikh smiled happily as a torch in a darkened room lit up a water tank teeming with pin-sized larvae. Now that the Al-Qaeda big fish have fled, the carp small fry are thriving. "Last year Al-Qaeda prevented us from doing any fish...
- Research articles 2008-04-28
- 3 Gorges Dam boss denies media reports on environmental catastrophe
- BEIJING, Nov. 27 Kyodo A senior Chinese government official overseeing the Three Gorges Dam project on Tuesday denied reports, extensively carried in state-run media, that the scheme could spark an ''environmental catastrophe.'' Wang Xiaofeng, director of the government's Three Gorges Dam construction committee, told...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- China says will act to limit Three Gorges Dam impact
- BEIJING AFP — China will act to limit ecological damage from the Three Gorges Dam project amid growing alarm over the negative impact of the world's biggest hydroelectric facility, state media said Wednesday. The announcement comes after Chinese experts warned recently of an environmental "catastrophe" from the massive project...
- Research articles 2007-11-20
- China says Three Gorges Dam could spark environmental 'catastrophe'
- BEIJING, Sept. 26 Kyodo Chinese officials have admitted the Three Gorges Dam project has created a string of ecological problems and could spark an environmental catastrophe if preventative measures are not taken, state media reported Wednesday. Officials attending a forum on the impact of the...
- Research articles 2007-09-29
- NOAA Helps Small Towns Remove Obsolete Dams
- BROWNSVILLE, Oregon ENS — --> An excavator breached a dam on Oregon's Calapooia River Monday at Brownsville, a small town about 20 miles north of Eugene. Soon the dam will be gone and federally listed threatened salmon will be able to swim upstream to their historic spawning...
- Research articles 2007-08-28
- A Kinder, Gentler Dam
- Dam projects in poor countries tend to wreak havoc on the communities they displace. But the $1.4 billion Nam Theun 2 dam in central Laos is a different story. Piu, a smallholder in her 30s, moved in May to a village built for some of the 1,200 families displaced by...
- Research articles 2007-08-20
- Rio Tinto eyes two-billion-dollar smelting plant in Malaysia
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and a Malaysian firm are to undertake a joint study to build what could be one of the world's biggest aluminum smelters, a source said Sunday. Under an agreement expected to be signed Tuesday, Rio Tinto Aluminium and Cahaya Mata...
- Research articles 2007-08-04
- Malaysian dam project drawing sex workers
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP — A huge dam being built in the Malaysian state of Sarawak has attracted crowds of sex workers, The Star daily reported Friday citing a police chief. The Bakun hydro-electric dam in Sarawak on Borneo island involves flooding an area the size of Singapore and has...
- Research articles 2007-08-02
- Engineers to breach Kruger Park dam after poisonings
- JOHANNESBURG AFP — Engineers plan to breach the walls of a giant dam in South Africa's world famous Kruger National Park after scores of wildlife died from drinking its poisoned water, officials said Thursday. The decision to send the bulldozers in to smash down part of Nhlanganzwane Dam in...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Controversial mega-dam takes shape in Laos
- NAKAI PLATEAU, Laos AFP — Monsoon rains have always shaped life in this remote corner of Laos, where villagers traditionally work rice paddies and find food in mist-shrouded mountain jungles. But this wet season, the tropical downpours herald radical change for the people living in this part of one...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- The age of cynicism
- IN five years, we built the Hoover Dam. From 1931 to 1936, the Colorado River was diverted with tunnels blasted into the Black Canyon walls, a town was built to house a small army of workers laboring in the desert, and 3 1/4 million cubic yards of concrete were poured...
- Research articles 2007-06-14
- Drought uncovers Australia's drowned town
- ADAMINABY, Australia AFP — Australia's worst drought in a century has uncovered a town deliberately flooded 50 years ago as part of a massive hydro-electricity scheme, stirring painful memories for former residents. Adaminaby, a small farming town nestled in the Snowy Mountains on the border between New South Wales...
- Research articles 2007-04-17
- Sudan archeology flourishes before the flood
- MEROWE, Sudan AFP — Sudan's archaeology is finally stepping out of Egypt's shadow as teams work against the clock to rescue an entire swathe of Nile Valley heritage from the rising waters of a Chinese-built dam. "The paradox is that, yes, an entire area is being wiped off the...
- Research articles 2007-03-17
- Auditors uncover mass embezzlement in China dam: press
- BEIJING AFP — Chinese auditors believe 37 million dollars has been embezzled from funds earmarked for resettling residents displaced by China's landmark Three Gorges Dam project, state press has reported. The 289 million yuan stemmed from allocations in 2004 and 2005 and were to have been used mainly for...
- Research articles 2007-01-25
- Officials Commend Dam Safety Act.
- Compiled by Carl Molesworth Civil engineers and dam safety officials hailed the passage of the Dam Safety Act of 2006 (H.R. 4981) in the House of Representatives as a crucial step forward in protecting the public from the increasing number of deficient...
- Research articles 2006-11-20
- 50,000 evacuated after quakes rattle central China
- BEIJING AFP — More than 50,000 people have been evacuated from their homes after a series of weekend quakes damaged houses in the central Chinese province of Hubei, state media reported. An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale rattled the area around Suizhou city on Friday and another measuring...
- Research articles 2006-10-30
- Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to Speak at Yale Dam Conference.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-25 October 2006-YALE UNIVERSITY: Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to Speak at Yale Dam ConferenceC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24102006 New Haven, Conn. - Bruce Babbitt, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior in the Clinton Administration, will deliver the keynote address...
- Research articles 2006-10-25
- China to relocate 300,000 more people for Three Gorges Dam
- BEIJING AFP — China has announced it will relocate around 300,000 more people than planned to make way for the Three Gorges Dam, bringing the total number to over 1.4 million. China had expected to resettle 1.13 million people but that figure has already been surpassed, well before the project...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Willard Bay-linked bill OK'd
- WASHINGTON -- The federal government may soon study whether it could raise the height of the Arthur V. Watkins Dam that holds Willard Bay in Weber County, based on a bill approved Wednesday in the House. The bill calls for the Bureau of Reclamation to do an environmental...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
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