The ongoing 28th International Commission on Large Dams Congress and 93rd Annual Meeting in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, are expected to be the largest-ever gathering of ...

Four dams and three large reservoirs were removed from the Klamath River in a project that finished last year. Acres of native wildflowers are now in bloom along the river’s edge.

Platypus populations impacted by large river dams are more vulnerable to threats Date: November 3, 2022 Source: University of New South Wales Summary: ...

Trapped sediment has robbed roughly 50,000 large dams worldwide of an estimated 13% to 19% of their combined original storage capacity, and total losses will reach 23% to 28% by 2050, UN research ...

Large hydropower dams that obstruct the Amazon basin have long come under fire for their environmental and cultural impact — Belo Monte being the most prominent example. Yet a bigger threat is ...

Most of the world’s large dams were built in the decades following World War II, between about 1950 and 1985, says Duminda Perera, a civil engineer and risk assessment researcher at the United ...

New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Devendra Kumar Sharma, Member, National Security Advisory Board has been elected as President of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD), in a secret ...

THE third Congress of the International Commission on Large Dams was held in Sweden during June 10-17. The opening session was held in the Stockholm Concert Hall (Konserthuset) and the closing ...

BEAVER DAMS, N.Y. (WETM) — Authorities are asking the public to be on the lookout for a Catlin man who they say is suspected to have been involved in a shooting that led to a large police ...

Pacific Northwest tribes are pressuring President Biden to make good on his pledge to uphold treaties in Indian Country and remove four large dams on the Snake River.

Large dams and the associated grid infrastructure are extremely expensive. With a limited ability to raise capital, how can the needs of Mozambique’s poor best be met — by spending in excess of $2 ...

While these dams represent just one percent of the records in the database, they impound some of the largest reservoirs in the world and provide about 11 percent of the total global water storage ...