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… waste heat from cooling systems into aquatic ecosystems, loss of habitat and soil salting in the wake of hydroelectric dam … direct, such as pollution from combustion or flooding of habitat to make a hydroelectric dam. Other impacts are …

… emissions into the atmosphere. Other risks include the loss, fragmentation and degradation of valuable habitats … wetlands and peatlands, and other carbon sinks), the loss of essential ecosystem services and increases in … as a component of biodiversity as well as an element of habitat for biodiversity. Key national obligations that may …