Tag: <span>Curuá-Una Reservoir</span>

When Renewable Energy isn’t ‘Green’: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Hydroelectric Reservoirs

By Kale Roberts, M.S. in Climate Science and Policy 2016 Hydropower is often considered a clean energy source, free of climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions. But although dams have been demonized for disrupting fish migrations and flooding valleys inhabited by families for generations, this so-called renewable form of energy has largely …