River damming impacts on fish habitat and associated conservation measures

Q Chen, Q Li, Y Lin, J Zhang, J **a, J Ni… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
River damming has brought great benefits to flood mitigation, energy and food production,
and will continue to play a significant role in global energy supply, particularly in Asia, Africa …

Dams for hydropower and irrigation: Trends, challenges, and alternatives

RJP Schmitt, L Rosa - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydropower and irrigation are essential for achieving human development objectives and
for climate mitigation and adaptation. These sectors depend on the same grey infrastructure …

Southeast Asian ecological dependency on Tibetan Plateau streamflow over the last millennium

F Chen, W Man, S Wang, J Esper, D Meko… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The great river systems originating from the Tibetan Plateau are pivotal for the wellbeing of
more than half the global population. Our understanding of historical ranges and future …

Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Remotely sensed rivers in the Anthropocene: State of the art and prospects

H Piégay, F Arnaud, B Belletti… - Earth Surface …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rivers of the world are undergoing accelerated change in the Anthropocene, and need
to be managed at much broader spatial and temporal scales than before. Fluvial remote …

Balancing-oriented hydropower operation makes the clean energy transition more affordable and simultaneously boosts water security

Z Liu, X He - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Reservoir hydropower offers a compelling combination of stability and flexibility services for
modern water and power grids. However, its operating flexibility is poorly characterized in …

Global expansion of sustainable irrigation limited by water storage

RJP Schmitt, L Rosa, GC Daily - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - pnas.org
Providing affordable and nutritious food to a growing and increasingly affluent global
population requires multifaceted approaches to target supply and demand aspects. On the …

Changes to long-term discharge and sediment loads in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta caused by upstream dams

D Van Binh, S Kantoush, T Sumi - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
The discharge and sediment loads of the Mekong River (MR) have been significantly altered
because of natural processes and anthropogenic activities. We examined the impacts of …

Can restoring water and sediment fluxes across a mega-dam cascade alleviate a sinking river delta?

SDX Chua, Y Yang, GM Kondolf, C Oeurng, T Sok… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Hydropower, although an attractive renewable energy source, can alter the flux of water,
sediments, and biota, producing detrimental impacts in downstream regions. The Mekong …

Balancing renewable energy and river resources by moving from individual assessments of hydropower projects to energy system planning

JJ Opperman, JP Carvallo, R Kelman… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
As governments and non-state actors strive to minimize global warming, a primary strategy
is the decarbonization of power systems which will require a massive increase in renewable …