Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to ...

Oregon endured the third-largest wildfire in its recorded history last summer. The Bootleg Fire tore through the Upper Klamath Basin, an ecologically sensitive area that is home to multiple threatened ...

COLUMBIA ― With more than 2,300 state-regulated dams across the state, the South Carolina Department of Health of and Environmental Control’s (DHEC) Dams & Reservoirs Safety Program plays a critical ...

Across the northeastern United States, a quiet but powerful transformation is underway. Rivers that were once blocked by outdated dams are now running freely again, and the results are nothing short ...

My dad helped with the building of Silver Lake. My dad and my in-laws told stories of the spring flooding happening every year before the original dam and Silver Lake was built. The Silver Lake dam ...

The critical dams in Logan Canyon are choking on mud, and the threat of a long overdue disaster worsening the issue has experts on edge. This summer, Logan used excavators to remove the accumulated ...

As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the US’s post-storm script: dams at imminent risk of failing. Officials ...