The Mullaperiyar Dam sits in India’s Kerala state, quietly performing a job it has done for more than a century. Built over ...

50 years after it's collapse, the question over whether the Teton Dam should be rebuilt still lingers.

The Three Gorges Dam in China is the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, a monumental engineering feat that ...

Killingly's Old Killingly Pond Dam is at risk of collapse due to seepage and sediment, prompting emergency actions.

The collapse of the Teton Dam spilled 80 billion gallons of water into eastern Idaho, killing 11 people and 13,000 head of livestock. Many people were made homeless by the disaster and tens of ...

Anita Knapp remembers it was a beautiful Saturday morning 50 years ago, June 5, 1976. She was 11 years old, playing with her ...

Building a giant dam between Russia and Alaska might save a key Atlantic current that is crucial to regulating the climate in northern Europe. However, that massive undertaking presents other risks, ...

If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers are weighing up a drastic intervention – building a 130-kilometre-wide dam between the US and Russia ...

Sao Paulo-- A mining dam collapsed in southeastern Brazil on Friday, inundating a nearby community in an enormous swath of reddish brown liquid waste and leaving an estimated 200 missing, according to ...