Voyage of the dammed

        February 13, 2019 The Technoskeptic | Global | renewables: hydro

Since the 1930s, as many as 60% of the world's major rivers have been dammed or diverted to generate electrical power. But along with the electricity from the thousands of dams comes unnatural river fluctuations, changing temperatures, loss of fish habitat, reduced sediment nutrients, and dead rivers. (Part 1/2, 4,500 words)