China has begun construction on the world's largest hydropower dam, a project so massive that Premier Li Qiang called it the "project of the century." But the dam could also create a big problem for ...

India fears Chinese dam will reduce flow on major river by up to 85% in dry season Delhi says a mega dam of its own will mitigate risks, but faces heavy local resistance Beijing building world's ...

After decades of planning and years of construction, Northern Colorado's Chimney Hollow Dam is nearly complete. Construction crews topped off the 350-foot-tall dam recently and are preparing to pave a ...

China has built more dams than any other country and more large dams than the rest of the world combined. This month, it officially acknowledged construction of the biggest dam ever conceived in human ...

Keen to store more irrigation water to shore up food security and protect itself from longer climate change-fuelled droughts and extreme rainfall, Indonesia has embarked on a dam-building project that ...

Barnaby Joseph Dye has received multilple grants and a scholarship from the UK's Research Councils (mainly Economic and Social Science Research Council) and the British Academy. He is a member of the ...

In October 2005, Taunton, Massachusetts, faced a potential catastrophe when the Whittenton Pond Dam was on the verge of collapse. The crisis, which followed Hurricane Katrina, drew national attention ...