THE formation of drops, as the result of a gas or vapour bubble bursting at the surface of water, has been attributed to the break-up of the jet formed when liquid flows into the crater left by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unexploded American bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...