"If that dam collapses, four million tons of poisonous sludge will gush down the mountainside and destroy our village completely. The gold mine isn't even productive anymore. Please remove the ...

You've advised the resort owners to repair the dam. They're thrilled. In 1995, when a spillway gate failed in the Folsom Dam in California, engineers spent more than $100 million to repair it.

A beaver colony gained overnight fame by building several dams in the Brdy protected landscape area, creating a natural ...

Building big dams isn’t the only way we’re messing with Earth’s spin—climate change plays a part too (think polar ice melting). Natural forces like the Moon’s pull have been slowing down ...

A group of beavers completed a dam project that had been stalled by government permits in just a matter of days, after it had ...

Beavers are known for their natural dam-building instincts. What happens when an infrastructure project is stalled for more than seven years? In most countries, the project may have been shelved ...

the Brazilian government has announced that the era of building big hydroelectric dams in the Amazon basin, long criticized by environmentalists and indigenous groups, is ending. “We are not ...