See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A hard rain was falling on Midland County, Michigan, on May 19, 2020, ...

SHUTESBURY — Lois Brown took her first steps as a teetering toddler in 1952 on a dock next to the pond on her parents’ property. The pond was also the scenic backdrop to her wedding ceremony in 1968.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists are urging North Carolina ...

Water in the Blue Earth River flows around the the Rapidan Dam southwest of Mankato, Minn., Monday, threatening the integrity of the dam as well as a house on the west side of the dam. Authorities in ...

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Minnesota’s century-old Rapidan Dam captured the national spotlight last week when its partial ...

While the demolition of big dams in the West gets more attention, many of these often-obsolete obstructions are also coming out of northeastern streams and rivers—and herring are returning in droves ...

Glen Canyon Dam, completed in 1963, was not designed to be operated at extremely low water levels in Lake Powell. The decline of Lake Powell is putting hydropower generation and downstream water ...

States are recognizing the ecological benefits of ripping out dams and reconnecting rivers. By Cara Buckley Today, I published an article that surprised me as I was reporting it out. We often hear ...

FROM THE RIM of Lake Powell, you can’t see the danger line. There isn’t a flashing gauge or a chart on the canyon wall that warns visitors when one of the most important machines in America begins to ...

Almost 4,100 dams are categorized at the same risk level and condition — or worse — as the Rapidan Dam, according to an NBC News analysis. The partial failure of Minnesota’s 114-year-old Rapidan Dam ...

When salmon return from the ocean to the Klamath River after the world’s largest dam removal project ends this fall, they will regain access to 400 miles of historical spawning habitat their species ...