The increased use of hydropower is currently driving the greatest surge in global dam
construction since the mid-20th century, meaning that most major rivers on Earth are now …

Hydropower production is altering the Mekong River basin's riverine ecosystems, which
contain the world's largest inland fishery and provide food security and livelihoods to …

This study investigates the influence of the river flow regime type on the e-flows releases
and hydropower production, constrained by eight hydrologically-based e-flows methods. For …

Managing freshwater resources sustainably under future climatic and hydrological
uncertainty poses novel challenges. Rehabilitation of ageing infrastructure and construction …

Hundreds of dams have been proposed throughout the Amazon basin, one of the world's
largest untapped hydropower frontiers. While hydropower is a potentially clean source of …

Two decades after the construction of the first major dam, the Mekong basin and its six
riparian countries have seen rapid economic growth and development of the river system …

Renewable energy use and urbanization level do have an impact on the air quality that can
be expressed by the CO 2 emissions. However, it is not evident whether they positively or …

The world's rivers are regulated by about 58,000 large dams (more than 15 m high) that
provide water supplies for municipalities and irrigation, allow downstream navigation, and …

A multitude of actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural and modified
ecosystems can have co‐benefits for both climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation …

Proposed hydropower dams at more than 350 sites throughout the Amazon require strategic
evaluation of trade-offs between the numerous ecosystem services provided by Earth's …