STARKVILLE, Miss.—A recent letter in Science magazine from a Mississippi State faculty member discusses the danger of aging, “high hazard” dams across the country and what should be done to prepare ...

The discovery of an ancient, buried landslide has delayed construction and added more than $200 million to the cost of replacing seismically unsafe Calaveras Dam, the largest local source of San ...

Damming the Red Sea could alleviate growing energy demands in the Middle East, engineers say, but such a massive project could also have untold ecological impacts, like those brought about by other ...

The ecology of an upstate New York stream rebounded to its natural state within three years after a small dam was removed, highlighting how quickly aquatic ecosystems can recover, according to a new ...

Completed in 1921, Copco No. 1 on the Klamath River was one of the first major dams built on the West Coast. It is slated for removal in 2024. Demolition of three other Klamath River dams is planned ...

The mud-filled San Clemente reservoir in Monterey County, which regulators say is a calamity waiting to happen, is about to make California history. Politicians, utility officials and ...

ABIQUIU DAM, N.M. -- About a dozen students from the science and engineering club at Coronado High School and Middle School in Gallina, N.M., toured the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Abiquiu Dam, Oct.

This segment is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story originally appeared on KQED Science. From Day 1 of the ...