A worst-case collapse of China’s Three Gorges Dam sounds like a nightmare: a wall of water racing down the Yangtze, overwhelming cities like Wuhan and Shanghai, crippling a basin that powers about 40 ...

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 ...

Some dangers hide in plain sight — what looks like a peaceful lake or a simple hole in the ground can, in reality, be a dam. These man-made barriers hold back massive amounts of water, and when they ...

Dams and levees are critical pieces of our infrastructure and our history. They're one of the oldest type of human-made structures on the planet, and they were one of the first things that that ...

The second deadliest dam failure in U.S. history happened suddenly. The St. Francis Dam was a 205-ft-high concrete gravity arch dam located in San Francisquito Canyon, 30 miles north of Los Angeles.

There are thousands of dams across the country in poor and unsatisfactory condition that are languishing without adequate funding for repair or staffing to ensure timely inspections.Some of those dams ...