Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past two centuries has caused measurable ...

Laos' government has longstanding plans to turn the landlocked country of 8 million people into "the battery of Southeast Asia" by exporting electricity generated by hydropower dams along the Mekong ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Humanity’s impact on the planet is so immense that our engineered megastructures have altered the very rotation of the planet. A new study from ...

Big Rock has been seeing an increase in traffic this summer, with visitors building dams to form makeshift pools. These dams have detrimental ecological impacts in an area that is already experiencing ...

October 2025 marks the one-year anniversary of the full removal of the dams on the Klamath River watershed. This is the biggest dam removal project in the world to date, taking down four dams in ...

Is there a better way to test Lewistown’s flood control dams than all at once? The Big Spring Creek Watershed Council thinks ...

Fisherman catch fish in the Mekong River near a construction site for the Luang Prabang Dam, in Luang Prabang, Laos, Jan. 28, 2024 (AP photo by Sakchai Lalit). Laos’ government has longstanding plans ...