In 2023, Gen. Michael Langley, commander of U.S. Africa Command, warned that African countries face new destabilizing challenges, including “climate change [that] is increasing desertification ...

European Union data has revealed that 2024 was the hottest year on record, with annual global temperatures breaching the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first time.. The average ...

Five PL-566 dams in Vernon, La Crosse and Monroe counties failed during an intense 2018 storm. Now officials weigh whether 23 similar dams need to go.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After several days of freezing temperatures, ice dams can form on your roof, potentially causing water leaks in your house. “So the other day, my wife noticed something ...

Algeria is in several ways a giant hiding in plain sight. In the band of fertile land that hugs its Mediterranean coast are historic cities like Constantine , Oran , and the capital Algiers.

Among those were dams at Spring Lake, Cary Lake and Lower Rockyford Lake, all in the eastern Columbia-Forest Acres area. A federal dam on Fort Jackson, the one at Semmes Lake, also broke, sending ...

Dams across the country are aging, and facing pressures from urban sprawl and intensifying floods wrought by climate change. The price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of ...

But it might soon go away. Maple Dale is one of thousands of dams constructed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, beginning in the mid-20th century ...

So low-head dams are man-made, manufactured structures, designed so that water flows continuously over the top from bank to bank of the river. And they usually have a 1 ft to 15 ft drop off.

One of the dams, and its projected 35 billion cubic feet reservoir, is only 19 miles from Morocco’s border with Algeria.The watershed filling the reservoir flows southeasterly, not further into ...

Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change. But the price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Removal plan controversial. The southwest Wisconsin dams are among nearly 12,000 that have been built under the USDA’s Watershed Programs. Generally smaller and set in rural agricultural areas ...