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• Welcome to the Anthropocene

  
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  ‘On Average, Humanity Has Built One Large Dam Every Day for the Last 130 Years.’
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• Biosphere conservation: monumental action is critical to avert global environmental crisis

  
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  Human-caused changes to our biosphere—the global total of the worlds ecosystems—are now so great and alarmingly rapid that human lives and societies undoubtedly face epic challenges in the near future as our biosphere deteriorates, planetary boundaries are reached, and tipping points exceeded. We may survive, we ...
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• Lake farm

  
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  After all the rain we had in Port Elizabeth the lake on Lake Farm Road flooded its banks and closed the road for quite some time.  I took a drive past there the other day to see how high it still was but it seems to have dropped back to its normal level.  The lake is the biggest natural fresh water lake in Port ...
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• Congressional hearing: Committee to take up Klamath dam debate

  
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  A year and a half after congressional legislation was introduce to give the green light to Klamath dam removal, the issue will have its first congressional hearing by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in June. LINK (via: The Siskiyou Daily)
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• Coletti dominates sprint race in Barcelona

  
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  Monegasque driver extends points lead  Stefano Coletti has claimed his second win of the season with a mature drive after a storming start for a dominant victory in today’s sprint race in Barcelona, controlling the pace all the way to lead home Robin Frijns and Felipe Nasr. The win was set up at the start: ...
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• Weekend Links

  
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  *  My proposed Coursera course will ask students to discover for themselves how and why John Doerr, and your other Venture Capitalists, are willing to provide an even greater abundance of knowledge in the service of greater economic and social equality than is the State of California, which clearly has the means to ...
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• Frijns powers to maiden win in Barcelona

  
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  Dutchman storms to victory in feature race Robin Frijns has claimed his debut GP2 win as the Series returns to Europe, claiming victory in this afternoon’s feature race in Barcelona by utilising a sharp get away and smart race strategy to lead home a fast charging Felipe Nasr and Jolyon Palmer. Poleman ...
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• WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP (MAY 10)

  
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  Interesting news and online content from the week: INFOGRAPHIC: Mining Builds Communities (mining.com) Mining’s value is not limited solely to the resources it extracts from the ground. Women in Mining: Perception Shift Needed to Attract Talent (Yahoo! Finance) Carlton University study says mining industry ...
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• Which Fish Get To Recolonize After Elwha’s Dams Are Gone?

  
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  The removal of the Elwha Dams created a unique opportunity to restore a wild run of steelhead. Unbelievably fisheries biologists are now transporting hatchery raised steelhead, along with some wild fish, above the former Elwha dam sites. As the video, audio and link below show, those that earn their living off the ...
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• International Support Needed for Protesters Occupying Belo Monte Dam

  
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  Indigenous people affected by the construction of hydroelectric dams on the Xingu, Tapajós and Teles Pires rivers occupy the Belo Monte Dam construction site, May 2, 2013. Photo Ruy Sposati /Agência Raízes From International Rivers (links added): Eight days ago, representatives of eight indigenous groups ...
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• How Can Cambodia Sustain Its Freshwater ‘Fish Factory’?

  
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  Tonle Sap has been called the beating heart of Cambodia. We want to see it keep beating.
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• Scientist at Work Blog: Empty Nets on the Mekong

  
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  On the Mekong, the Opperman family learns how to cast for dinner in a changing river.        
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• Ethiopia: Shadowboxing Smoke and Mirrors

  
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    Meles Zenawi when he was alive and his apostles today (“Melesistas”) keep playing us in the Diaspora like a cheap fiddle. They make us screech, shriek, scream and shout by simply showing their mugs in our cities. How do they do it? Every now and then, the Melesistas suit up a few of their bumbling and ...
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• Hacked database of dams in the USA

  
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  Unidentified attackers were able to gain access to the National Register of Dams – a database maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (United States Army Corps of Engineers). This is a valuable database of 79,000 dams in America, with their weaknesses, evaluating the number of dead in the case of a breakage ...
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• Chinese River’s Fate May Reshape a Region

  
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• Call me if beavers stop chewing, okay?

  
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  Lake Saimaa at Ristiina is the largest lake in Finland and the fourth largest lake in all of Europe. It was formed by a giant glaciar melting at the end of the last ice age. It is the only known home of the rare fresh water ‘ringed seal’. And the Saimaa salmon. And weirdly enough once harvested for its easily ...
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• Tribesmen launch occupy protest at dam site in the Amazon rainforest

  
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  On Thursday roughly 200 indigenous people launched an occupation of a key construction site for the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon. The protestors, who represent communities that will be affected by the massive dam, are demanding immediate suspension of all work on hydroelectric projects on the ...
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• Thank goodness we were here!

  
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  Big Hole Brown Giclee Print by Bern Sundell Thank goodness for the Department of Natural resources in Minnesota who was on hand to raise fish in captivity and release them after some thoughtless beaver dams raised the water temperatures and made it impossible for trout to live. Thank goodness they’re always on ...
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• Mekong region has lost a third of its forests in 30 years, may lose another third by 2030

  
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  The Greater Mekong region of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Vietnam will lose a third of its remaining forest cover by 2030 unless regional governments improve management of natural resources and transition toward a greener growth model, warns a new report issued by WWF.
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• The Fight to Save the Rivers

  
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  Damocracy – The Movie Damocracy is a powerful new documentary that debunks the myth of large-scale dams as clean energy and a solution to climate change. It records the priceless cultural and natural heritage the world would lose in the Amazon and Mesopotamia if two planned large-scale dams are built – the ...
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