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 ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

One Maine town, built on water-powered mills during the Industrial Revolution, is joining a dam-removal revolution moving ...

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

The biggest hydroelectric project in the world, the Three Gorges Dam, sits on the Yangtze River in the Hubei province 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?

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.