Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – ...

Across the world, large dams stand as some of humanity’s most ambitious engineering achievements. They are built not only to generate electricity, but to control floods, support agriculture, and ...

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The Siang Upper Multipurpose Project will generate electricity and regulate water flow. But locals are angry about government secrecy over the project. Strong protests have erupted in the Indian ...

Humanity’s impact on the planet is so immense that our engineered megastructures have altered the very rotation of the planet. A new study from Harvard University analyzes how dam building—primarily ...

Dams in the United States may be in worse condition than previously understood. More than 16,700 dams across the country are ...

WHAT WE NEED HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS. BRITTANY BEN JENNIFER. MASSACHUSETTS IS NOT IMMUNE FROM THE DEFERRED MAINTENANCE FACING THE COUNTRY’S INVENTORY OF DAMS. SOME OF THEM ARE NOT ONLY IN POOR CONDITION ...

Marchers call for the removal of Snake River dams to aid in salmon recovery during the Stop Salmon Extinction rally and march on the Capitol Campus in Olympia, Washington, in 2022. Tony Overman ...