Across the Rockies and Great Plains, beaver dams interrupt narrow streams, slowing currents into chains of ponds that reshape channels and spread wetlands across valleys. The mud-and-stick barriers ...

When Jawaharlal Nehru called dams “temples of modern India” in 1954, he was expressing a belief shared by all the dominant faiths: to dam a river was to develop a nation. Over the course of the ...

Plans to build a dam on Alum Creek for flood control and to create a water supply reservoir date back to the spring of 1956, soon after the Hoover Dam was completed in Westerville. Planners knew it ...