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An international team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time how artificial intelligence can be used to develop sustainable hydropower across the entire Amazon basin, which stretches across South America.

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Hydropower accounts for more than 60% of the electricity generated in Brazil. And the network of mighty rivers in the Amazon Basin is responsible for most of this potential. Today, there are more than 300 proposals for new dams under consideration in the region. But while hydropower is considered a source of clean energy — […]

Biologist Alex Flecker and computer scientist Carla Gomes co-led a project that employed AI and around 40 researchers in an attempt to determine optimal placement of around 350 hydropower dams in the Amazon river basin.

A few years ago, biologist Alexander Flecker went to computer scientist Carla Gomes with an ambitious suggestion: utilize AI and other tools, in partnership with a diverse group of Amazon river basin experts, to figure out how to meet hydropower requirements with the least impact of the environment.

Rapid hydroelectric dam expansion in the Amazon poses a serious threat to Earth's largest and most biodiverse river basin. There are 158 dams in the Amazon River basin, with another 351 proposed; these projects are typically assessed individually, with little coordinated planning.

A new study of dozens of wild fish species commonly consumed in the Peruvian Amazon says that people there could suffer major nutritional shortages if ongoing losses in fish biodiversity continue. Furthermore, the increasing use of aquaculture and other substitutes may not compensate.

A computer modeling study finds that declining fish biodiversity can affect human nutrition due to varied nutritional benefits between species.