Tara Lohan is a professional environmental journalist and editor.
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After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature.
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Tara Lohan has been a professional environmental journalist and editor for more than over 15 years. Her work has been published in the Nation, the American Prospect, Salon, High Country News, Grist, the Revelator, Adventure Journal, and other news outlets. She is the editor of two books on the global water crisis and, most recently, Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life.
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Adapt, Move or Die? Plants and Animals Face New Pressures in a Warming World
The Revelator | March | 2024
Climate change is creating pressure on environments and the species that inhabit them. For many animals, adaptation or migration is a task made difficult or impossible by physiology or other human impacts to the environment.
The Revelator | February | 2024
Conservationists in Namibia have found that the fate of people and cheetahs are closely intertwined—and so are solutions to help both.
Taking Stock of Methane Emissions From Reservoirs
The Revelator | April | 2022
Most emissions come from human-caused sources like oil and gas, landfills and livestock. We’ve known about the threat from those sources for years, but emissions from hydropower reservoirs have largely been either uncounted or undercounted.
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Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life
Island Press | October | 2024
In Undammed, environmental journalist Tara Lohan explores how removing old or harmful dams is helping bring life back to rivers across the United States.
There’s a growing movement to remove dams and restore rivers to their natural state. Lohan shares success stories from places like Maine, Ohio, and the Southwest. By dismantling unneeded dams, communities are improving water quality, creating safer environments, and strengthening ecosystems. Lohan shows that by restoring rivers, we’re not only helping nature—we’re also protecting our own health, safety, and future.
Undammed is a hopeful story about healing both rivers and communities.Media by this author
Feature | December | 2017
The keynote discussion at the Pacific Council’s inaugural Water Conference, featuring Tara Lohan, managing editor of Water Deeply.
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