Sept 2017 In civil engineering, quicksand is more than just a puddle of mud! The "quick condition" occurs when seepage ...

It’s not every day you walk through a forest of Honduras mahogany trees in Hawai‘i—or anywhere, really. And yet, here we are, ...

President Marcos visited the storm-ravaged province of Catanduanes to assess the damage caused by Super Typhoon ‘Pepito’ and ...

In 2020, a dispute over water payments to the United States boiled over into violence, with angry farmers pushing back National Guard troops guarding a dam, because Mexico had fallen behind on ...

After 11 weeks, the Site C dam reservoir in northeastern B.C. is now fully filled. B.C. Hydro announced the process was complete on Nov. 7, having started in August. One electricity generating ...

Salmon have officially returned to Oregon’s Klamath Basin for the first time in more than a century, months after the largest dam removal project in U.S. history freed hundreds of miles of the ...

But the message was still clear: "Un-dam the Klamath now!" That message became fact at the end of September when the final hunks of concrete were trucked away from the last of the four dams that ...

In 1963, the Glen Canyon Dam was built. It created Lake Powell Reservoir, which straddles Utah and Arizona, to ensure a water supply for the lower Colorado River basin states and Mexico. Over the past ...

This photograph, taken on October 14 by Gab Ramotlwa of a section of the Vaal Dam, shows how much the water level had already dropped at that stage. The level has now already dropped to 34%.

But incredibly, thanks to ancient Roman engineering which helped to direct the overflowing waters of the dam, the deluge was diverted down a hillside and away from the town of Almonacid de la Cuba.

Avalanche – Kolaribetta (The Nilgiris) for the sight of deer drinking water at the dam. Needle Rock (The Nilgiris), a tough climb whose views make it all worth it.