Don Ellis overlooked the Teton River as he watched a wall of water break through the newly-completed Teton Dam. It was 11:55 ...

ATTAPEU TOWN, Laos — The day before this week’s catastrophic dam failure in Laos, the companies building the dam knew that it was deteriorating, and one of them saw a potential trouble sign three days ...

The collapse of two Libyan dams earlier this month is likely to herald a grim new dam era, in which the decline of dam building accelerates and deadly dam failures become more and more common. The ...

If it weren’t for the construction of Libby Dam, in Libby, Montana, I’m not sure I’d be here today. I know for certain I wouldn’t be its natural resource manager. But more than that, I might not even ...

The vastness of the building site was at first overwhelming for the young Ethiopian mechanical engineer. Hundreds were already digging the foundations in tough conditions for what is now Africa's ...