Investors Beware: Infrastructure Projects Are Collapsing Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJune 3, 2018China, Belt and Road Initiative, One Belt One Road, high-speed railway, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, investors, infrastructure, railway, road, hydropower, dam, hydroelectric dam, PNG-LNG, Papua New Guinea - Liquid Natural Gas Project, Papua New Guinea, natural gas, tax avoidance, ExxonMobil, social violence, Amazon, Brazilian Amazon, deforestation, poaching, illegal mining, Michel Temer, President Lula, Brazil, corruption, bribery, risk-reward tradeoff, transparency, developing nations, Australia, Darwin Harbor, Darwin Port, Exim, Chinese Export-Import Bank, Xi Jinping Comment
Will China Wipe Out the World’s Rarest Ape? ConservationBill LauranceMay 4, 2018Tapanuli Orangutan, China, hydropower, dam, Sumatra, Indonesia, habitat fragmentation, roads, powerlines, One Belt One Road, Belt and Road Initiative, infrastructure, railroads, ports, energy projects, endangered primates, great apes, Sinohydro, Bank of China Comments
Damming the Tropics Will not Work RainforestsBill LauranceNovember 28, 2017dam, hydropower projects, hydroelectric dams, methane, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, deforestation, roads, fisheries, green energy, Philip Fearnside, William Laurance, Tapajos River, Mekong River, Belo Monte Dam, Inga Dam, solar energy, wind energy, economic risks Comments