Graffiti is scattered across the side of McAllister Park Dam in San Antonio on Nov. 5. Officials with the Upper Guadalupe River Authority are looking into the possibility of building retention dams ...

Beavers are known as ecosystem engineers, capable of transforming entire river systems through their dam-building behavior. By cutting trees and building dams, they slow down water flow and create ...

The Panama Canal's water levels have been dwindling, and this shift will have significant economic consequences for the region. To combat the change, the Panama government approved the Rio Indio ...

A group pushing to resurrect decades-old plans to build a dam on the Duck River in Columbia, Tennessee, is working with U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles to secure congressional funding to fast-track a feasibility ...

Widespread beaver dams are showing up in Pacific Northwest coastal wetlands, where they may create sheltered habitat that ...

As the U.S. and other countries expand clean energy, large hydropower dams, often seen as a reliable renewable solution, can come with significant environmental and social costs if not planned ...

The dam project, drafted in 2018 and based on a former military training site south of Prague, had been delayed by land negotiations. Local beavers built several dams, saving the government more than ...

Plans to build a dam on Alum Creek for flood control and to create a water supply reservoir date back to the spring of 1956, soon after the Hoover Dam was completed in Westerville. Planners knew it ...

Climate change and biodiversity loss are mounting threats to Australia's water security. So we often hear calls for more dams. But is that the answer? Our recent research reveals large dam projects ...

China is planning to build a series of enormous hydropower dams. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Georgetown University professor Mark Giordano about the project and its effect on Sino-Indian relations.