STARKVILLE, Miss.—A recent letter in Science magazine from a Mississippi State faculty member discusses the danger of aging, “high hazard” dams across the country and what should be done to prepare ...

The discovery of an ancient, buried landslide has delayed construction and added more than $200 million to the cost of replacing seismically unsafe Calaveras Dam, the largest local source of San ...

Completed in 1921, Copco No. 1 on the Klamath River was one of the first major dams built on the West Coast. It is slated for removal in 2024. Demolition of three other Klamath River dams is planned ...

Damming the Red Sea could alleviate growing energy demands in the Middle East, engineers say, but such a massive project could also have untold ecological impacts, like those brought about by other ...

JIANMIN VILLAGE, China--Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam by releasing a list of 10 world records. As in: The Three Gorges is the world's biggest dam, ...

The ecology of an upstate New York stream rebounded to its natural state within three years after a small dam was removed, highlighting how quickly aquatic ecosystems can recover, according to a new ...

The mud-filled San Clemente reservoir in Monterey County, which regulators say is a calamity waiting to happen, is about to make California history. Politicians, utility officials and ...

ABIQUIU DAM, N.M. -- About a dozen students from the science and engineering club at Coronado High School and Middle School in Gallina, N.M., toured the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Abiquiu Dam, Oct.

The Lake Mills reservoir gets drawn down in March 2012 as part of the Elwha River Restoration, which involved the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. Joel Rogers/Corbis Once trumpeted as ...

FOR the past five years, drought-stricken Californians have implored the heavens for rain. Lately, their prayers have been answered more torrentially than many may have wished. This winter is shaping ...