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Belo Monte Dam Project Draws Even More Concerns | ANCESTRAL CONNECTIONS

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Last month’s worldwide protests against the Brazilian government’s Belo Monte Dam project may have ended, but concerns about deforestation and displacement of indigenous populations remain. Now, there may be something else to worry about.

Philip M. Fearnside, a researcher with the National Insitute for Amazon Research in Manaus, Brazil suggests that the hydroelectric dam, which will be the world’s third largest, may release significant quantities of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.

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We Remember and Salute Wangari Maathai

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Wangari Maathai, the first black African woman to receive the Nobel Prize


Wangari Maathai’s compelling life story is inextricably linked with the social and political changes that so much of Africa has been through since the idea of throwing off European colonialism began to gain traction shortly after World War II.

Her unique insight was that the lives of Kenyans – and, by extension, of people in many other developing countries – would be made better if economic and social progress went hand in hand with environmental protection.

The Green Belt Movement, which she founded in 1977, has planted an estimated 45 million trees around Kenya.

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