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 ...

A combination of heavy rainstorms and snowmelt caused the water held back by the coffer dam to overtop an emergency spillway, ...

During our recent ShakeOut drill, a number of people asked me about dam safety during earthquakes. I am not an earthquake engineer and by no means an expert in dam safety. But I have been poking into ...

Two major dams in King Count, have done their jobs to protect western Washington state and remained stable Wednesday, despite an intense series of atmospheric river events that breached levees, ...