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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.
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 ...
Thousands of the world's large dams are so clogged with sediment that they risk losing more than a quarter of their storage capacity by 2050, UN researchers said Wednesday, warning of the threat ...
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.
Like most of the world’s 58,700 large dams, those in California were built for yesterday’s more stable climate patterns. But as climate change taxes the world’s water systems—affecting ...
Brief video captured the moment an Air India plane crashed and appeared to be consumed in a large fireball shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad on Thursday, June 12 ...
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 ...
By using thousands of molecular markers, we were able to identify a strong signal indicating that genetic differentiation increased rapidly between platypuses below and above these large dams ...
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.
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