Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past two centuries has caused measurable ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Humanity’s impact on the planet is so immense that our engineered megastructures have altered the very rotation of the planet. A new study from ...

Dam owners are their neighbors’ keepers. Changes to Virginia law in 2008 made dam owners liable for the safety of anyone living or driving downstream and required them to prepare their dams to ...

October 2025 marks the one-year anniversary of the full removal of the dams on the Klamath River watershed. This is the biggest dam removal project in the world to date, taking down four dams in ...

With America’s dams showing their age, utilities have an opportunity to tap into federal funding and modernize critical concrete infrastructure before costly failures strike. In the U.S., hydropower ...

Origins and early years of the U.S. reclamation service: the massive and structural traditions of dam design -- The Corps of engineers and early multipurpose projects: Wilson and Tygart dams -- The ...

Fisherman catch fish in the Mekong River near a construction site for the Luang Prabang Dam, in Luang Prabang, Laos, Jan. 28, 2024 (AP photo by Sakchai Lalit). Laos’ government has longstanding plans ...