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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Officials have opened Ambuklao and Binga dams in Benguet province to release water as they near spilling levels.

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 the past 20 years, four small dams on Long Island have collapsed (not counting Stony Brook and Blydenburgh) and in each ...

Dear EarthTalk: "What’s the story with so-called 'deadbeat dams' causing ecosystem problems across the country?" -- George H., Seattle, WA ...