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Hydrological Sciences

Saeid Aminjafari

Earth and Space scientist at Bolin Centre for Climate Research. https://saeid-aminjafari.github.io

When Droughts Dry Up Power: The Climate-Hydropower dilemma

When Droughts Dry Up Power: The Climate-Hydropower dilemma

When we think of hydropower, its environmental impacts usually comes to mind: the dams that disrupt ecosystems, the water bodies that shift, the surface evaporation that increases, and the greenhouse gases that escape from reservoirs1. Hydropower, for all its clean energy potential, is not without its environmental baggage, whether on local water resources or the global surface water storage. But ...[Read More]