Do the Benefits of Hydroelectric Dams Outweigh the Environmental Consequences? (5 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Do the Benefits of Hydroelectric Dams Outweigh the Environmental Consequences? (5 of 6)

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San Pedro Mezquital River in Mexico.. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 13th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E. Ezcurra at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, CA, and colleagues was titled, "A natural experiment reveals the impact of hydroelectric dams on the estuaries of tropical rivers."

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