Over the past two centuries, the construction of thousands of dams has done more than just tame rivers – it has shifted the Earth’s North Pole about a meter from its original position. By storing ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift more than a meter. Reading time 2 minutes Humans have built so many dams ...

The whole point of a dam is to store water in one place, thus preventing it from spreading across a larger surface area. That's great for hydropower, recreation, and ensuring there's enough water for ...

On this day in history, July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the course of the next five years, more than 21,000 men would work tirelessly to produce what would become the largest ...

Cambodia has begun clearing more than 7,300 hectares (18,000 acres) of protected rainforest in Kravanh National Park to build an irrigation dam, with nearly 4,000 hectares (10,000 acres) to be ...

LEXINGTON, S.C. — Nearly a century after its construction began, the Dreher Shoals Dam — better known as the Lake Murray Dam — has been officially recognized as a National Historic Civil Engineering ...

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 ...

China is building the largest power plant the world has ever seen, in a very remote corner of Tibet. But the $167 billion hydropower dam has environmentalists and neighbouring countries concerned. On ...