Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Like most of the world’s 58,700 large dams, those in California were built for yesterday’s more stable climate patterns. But as climate change taxes the world’s water systems—affecting ...

Taming the water. Dams, both large and small, serve various purposes, said Andrews (large dams are mostly those taller than 15 meters—roughly the height of a four-story building).

Like many dams around the world, the Wadi Derna dams in Libya were built in the 1970s during the era of peak global dam construction, when 1,000 large dams were installed each year.

What we know about a large dam's catastrophic breach in Ukraine. Updated June 6, 2023 3:20 PM ET Originally published June 6, 2023 1:28 PM ET. By . Bill Chappell , Geoff Brumfiel ...

Wisconsin has more than 4,000 dams, from small earthen ones to large ones that generate electricity. Threats to their infrastructure were thrust into the spotlight when a dam in Manawa failed in ...

The next big phase of the Klamath River Dam removal started this week. It's the largest dam removal in U.S. history and is expected to last through 2024.

A new genetic study finds large dams restrict platypus movement, with significant implications for their conservation. The platypus is possibly the most irreplaceable mammal existing today. They ...

But while the U.S. still benefits from the large dams it built in the 20th century, there's a growing recognition that in some cases, at least, dambuilding went too far—and the Elwha River is a ...

The largest dam in the world is the Three Gorges Dam in China, which has a famously large volume of 39.3 billion cubic meters and cost a whopping $37 billion to construct.

The next big phase of the Klamath River Dam removal started this week. It's the largest dam removal in U.S. history and is expected to last through 2024.