With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. Weāve dammed, diked, and diverted almost every…
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The 1999 demolition of the Edwards Dam on Maineās Kennebec RiverĀ set off a wave of dam removalsĀ across the United States. Since then…
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Standing in front of a crowd of hundreds at Oakland, California’s Grand Lake Theater, Rob Hopkins shows a picture of a butcher…
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