Dams across the country are aging, and facing pressures from urban sprawl and intensifying floods wrought by climate change.

The price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars, meaning dam owners could face hard ...

The work begins by building forms to hold the concrete in place. Then a truck on tank-like tracks dumps the concrete inside the formwork. A bulldozer then spreads the concrete, followed by a machine ...

In August 1962, on a hilltop overlooking the western shoreline of what today is California’s fifth-largest reservoir, ...

The Columbia River could be the answer to California’s water problems, former President Donald Trump seemed to say at a news ...

Helene still wielded enough power to inflict historic flooding across multiple states, millions of power outages and ...

Hurricane Helene was big, strong and fast, making it a near-perfect storm to bring widespread death and destruction to the ...

All are focused on the hunt for one of the world’s most coveted minerals: copper. Oak Dam, discovered by BHP Group geologists in 2018, is a glimmer of hope for Chief Executive Mike Henry, who sees ...

Helene has weakened to a post-tropical cyclone and is moving north, bringing what the National Hurricane Center called ...

Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday packing winds of 140 mph (225 kph) ...

Chris Jordan, maintenance manager for Horseshoe Beach, tries to find a water shutoff valve amid the rubble of the destroyed ...

Helene still wielded enough power to inflict historic flooding across multiple states, millions of power outages and ...