ArticleScience advances2021
How green can Amazon hydropower be? Net carbon emission from the largest hydropower plant in Amazonia.
Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Feeding ecology of an Amazonian electric knifefish under altered flood-pulse dynamics caused by hydroelectric damming.Journal of fish biology · 2026Article
- Anthropogenic Barriers Limit Fish Access to Essential Habitats in the Amazon in the Face of Climate Change.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Probabilistic Carbon Analysis of Pakistan's Bridges Unveils the Urgent Needs of Overdesign Optimization and Policy Transformation.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Poverty-Food Insecurity Nexus in the Post-Construction Context of a Large Hydropower Dam in the Brazilian Amazon.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Large hydropower projects increase stress despite compensation efforts: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon.PloS one · 2023Article
- Feasibility of hybrid in-stream generator-photovoltaic systems for Amazonian off-grid communities.PNAS nexus · 2022Article
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Abstract
The current resurgence of hydropower expansion toward tropical areas has been largely based on run-of-the-river (ROR) dams, which are claimed to have lower environmental impacts due to their smaller reservoirs. The Belo Monte dam was built in Eastern Amazonia and holds the largest installed capacity among ROR power plants worldwide. Here, we show that postdamming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Belo Monte area are up to three times higher than preimpoundment fluxes and equivalent to about 15 to 55 kg CO
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