Dams across the country are aging, and also facing pressures from urban sprawl and intensifying floods wrought by climate ...

As residents continue cleaning up after Hurricane Helene, state officials are praising the use of a special barrier that ...

Most people who live, work and shop in the old flood plain beneath it don't know it's there. But according to scientific ...

According to scientific modeling, if the dam were to fail during extreme rains, the consequences would be destructive and ...

More water than ever is hurtling through Douglas Dam as TVA sends Helene's aftermath down through the Tennessee River.

The Ghost Dam will be relocated downstream as part of an extreme-weather mitigation plan aimed at floods of the ...

Bluestone Dam, the 75-year-old Summers County flood control project, may well have saved Charleston and other downriver ...

The literal floodgates are open all along the Tennessee River as it moves Helene's floodwater from the Smokies to the Ohio River.

The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, urged the Federal Ministries of Water Resources and Environment to direct the ...

Authorities in Jharkhand have released over 50,000 cusecs of water from dams to prepare for expected heavy rainfall, as local ...

The Inter-ministerial Technical Committee on Evaluation of Dams in Nigeria held its inaugural meeting on Wednesday.

Those dams, combined, control water levels on 343 square miles of land, and are estimated to reduce flood damage by $44.5 million a year, with the largest reduced risk, $25.3 million a year ...