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

Panicked local officials initially said the Waterville Dam and the Lake Lure Dam had burst, but both were reportedly still ...

Helene's extreme rainfall flooded East Tennessee and caused authorities to issue evacuations in case of dam failures.

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

Top federal and state government officials have assured host communities of major dams in the north of safety as fear grips ...

TVA is actively monitoring levels at our Watauga Dam in Carter County, Tennessee. The Headwater hit an elevation of 1970.2', ...

Brazil’s mega dams rank among the most powerful in the world, but droughts driven by climate change have decreased the dams’ ...

Private owners, state and local governments, and public utilities own and manage the overwhelming majority of U.S. dams.

About $14 million in grants will aid in the repair of dams and coastal flood prevention structures across the state, the ...

Helene, now a weakened post-tropical cyclone, left chaos and destruction across the Southeast. A damage estimate said the storm will cost billions.

Indigenous people have long known about the damage dams cause, but to hear the federal government admit it is another thing.

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