WORLD: Damming the Amazon
Saturday, May 5, 2012 - 20:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Brazil is building the third largest hydroelectric dam in the world in the Amazon basin, and plans to build 60 in all, but indigenous people say they are threatened and so is the rainforest.
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