China has greenlit the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau, setting ...

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After more than 100 years of being blocked by a series of dams, the Klamath River finally ran free. And it began to heal.

For 112 years the massive Rapidan Dam stood strong on the Blue Earth River. Then on June 24, with near record-level river ...

Scots in some parts of the country will have extreme rainfall and flooding to contend with when ringing in the bells tonight.

Two federal agencies have announced plans to update a study on the Columbia and Snake River dams — a move lauded by advocates ...

Frazier said that engineers have estimated three to seven years for the dam to be fully restored.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center survey crews have navigated through hundreds of river ...

A Chinese hydrodam has been given the green light to start development by authorities, but human rights activists are ...

Beijing has approved plans to dam a gorge in the Himalayas that is three times as deep as the Grand Canyon, despite concerns ...

Water began refilling Green Peter Reservoir earlier than planned this year, in just the latest twist in a plan meant to save ...

Andrew Van Dam writes the Department of Data column each week for The Washington Post. He has covered economics and wrangled data and graphics for The Post and the Wall Street Journal. He got his ...