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

China called the Banqiao Dam strong enough for a 10,000-year flood. Then Super Typhoon Nina hit in 1975, the dam burst, and ...

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 ...

Families on the North Shore of Oahu woke up before dawn Friday to emergency alerts on their phones telling them to leave their homes immediately. By mid-morning, more than 138,000 people were under ...

Honolulu officials urged residents near the Wahiawa Dam in Honolulu on Friday morning to evacuate the area immediately after a massive dam failure caused "potential life-threatening flooding of ...

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 ...