Across the world, large dams stand as some of humanity’s most ambitious engineering achievements. They are built not only to generate electricity, but to control floods, support agriculture, and ...

Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – ...

China’s intentions to dam the Yarlung Tsangpo River in eastern Tibet have been documented for well over a decade, with various iterations of the project proposal holding different timelines, costs, ...

Ethiopia inaugurated the continent's largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed calling it a "great achievement for all black people" despite years of diplomatic rancour ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is the largest hydropower dam in Africa, was recently commissioned on September 9, ...

The new year has not been kind to the hydroelectric-dam industry. On January 11th, the New York Times reported that Mosul Dam, the largest such structure in Iraq, urgently requires maintenance to ...

The number of dams in the United States at risk of overtopping is increasing, "threatening their structural integrity and downstream communities," according to a new study from Florida. About 250,000 ...

As a group of Indigenous teenagers and young adults neared the end of a historic, long-awaited first journey down the newly restored Klamath River, CNN caught up with a few of the participants. Over a ...

Ethiopia inaugurated the continent's largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday in what Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called a "great achievement for all black people", but it drew a protest to the United ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — With great fanfare Ethiopia inaugurated its controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Tuesday – the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa but one that's divided the region ...