Less than a month after four towering dams on the Klamath River were demolished, hundreds of salmon made it into waters they ...

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 ...

So we often hear calls for more dams. But is that the answer? Our recent research reveals large dam projects are costly gambles with public money. They often fail to deliver promised economic ...

Even in wealthy countries, dams have been responsible for some of the deadliest man-made disasters. Large reservoirs can weigh more than 100,000 million tonnes when full - enough to cause ...

The research is published in the journal Scientific Data. River barriers, ranging from large dams to small locks, weirs, or ...

Hydropower accounts for roughly half of the renewable energy generated in Maine. What will happen as dams disappear?

Sixty years ago, I was a reporter for the Klamath Falls (Oregon) Herald and News and with my family lived in a small house on ...