Hydroelectric Dams May Jeopardize the Amazon's Future
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 14:52
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Hundreds of built and proposed hydroelectric dams may significantly harm life in and around the Amazon by trapping the flow of rich nutrients and modifying the climate from Central America to the Gulf of Mexico. These findings, published in Nature, emerge from a multidisciplinary, international collaboration of researchers from 10 universities, led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin.