While casual visitors might not know it, Kawuneeche Valley on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park was once a ...

North America’s largest and most urban double-crested cormorant colony shows how people can share space with an unfairly ...

Sedimentation has reduced the water capacity at Bartlett and Horseshoe reservoirs by about 50,000 acres collectively. The ...

Students at Colorado State University are now testing and studying a model of a dam that will one day be built northwest of ...

Colorado State University engineering students are testing dam safety on a large model of the soon-to-be-built dam at ...

The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

As Egypt built its High Dam, Sudan’s Nubian valleys quietly disappeared underwater, displacing thousands, burying ancient ...

But it was all as a result of stormwater pollution." Sediment build-up, high nitrogen levels and depleted oxygen in the lake caused fish kills and algal blooms.

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built across the world, Earth's poles have tilted by over 1 meter (3 feet). The ...

Niobrara decided to relocate again, in the 1970s, after silt and sediment build-up raised the local water table, leading to flooded farm fields and basements.

Schematic illustration outlining the locations of the dam and the ancient lake caused by blocking of the Colorado River.