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Carl Middleton is interviewed about the Mekong river and Nam Theun 2 on "Living on Earth."  

Julie McCarthy, NPR’s South American correspondent filed this in-depth, detailed and evocative feature about the struggle of the Amazonian Indians to stop the damming of the Xingu River.

Listen to Patrick McCully on the award winning NPR show “Living on Earth", as he discusses the failed carbon offset model to slow global warming and misguided dam projects in Africa and other parts of the developing world.

Carl Middleton, International Rivers' Mekong Program Coordinator, critiques Cambodia's plans to expand electricity production by building nine new hydro electric dams over the next eleven years.

Aviva Imhof discusses the Chinese earthquake and its threats to dams in China with New Zealand's equivalent of NPR.

Listen to Aviva Imhof, International Rivers' Campaigns Director, talk to Warren Olney of National Public Radio’s “To The Point” about the fate of the Zipingpu Dam after the massive earthquake in China on May 12, 2008. While Chinese authorities are now saying the dam and its reservoir are safe, Imhof suggests such reassurances may be premature.

Aviva Imhof, International Rivers' Campaigns Director talks to Scott Tong of "Marketplace."
Marketplace says "Troops have been dispatched to shore up nearly 400 dams damaged by the Sichuan province earthquake. Mother Nature's mostly to blame, but there are worries over human error, too, since China has been exporting its dam-building expertise."

Listen to International Rivers Terri Hathaway critique the Grand Inga Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the BBC World Service's Africa Service.

Listen to International Rivers' Aaron Sanger on San Francisco's Green 960am speaking about the campaign to save the Rio Pascua and Rio Baker from damming.

Listen to this presentation about China's global role and the environment which Policy Director Peter Bosshard gave at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club on February 13, 2008.