A historic dam in Washington County will be replaced with a terraced fishway this summer, capping an over decade-long effort to improve fish passage and broaden public access alon ...

As the U.S. and other countries expand clean energy, large hydropower dams, often seen as a reliable renewable solution, can ...

The former NSP Dam was built in 1928. In 2023 Xcel Energy replaced six of the spillway gates, which open and close to release ...

Environmentalists may hate dams, but the cities of Colorado’s Front Range are counting on them to support their booming ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Humanity’s impact on the planet is so immense that our engineered megastructures have altered the very rotation of the planet. A new study from ...

High in Tibet, China is moving forward with plans for what could become the largest hydropower project ever built - a massive dam capable of generating enough electricity for hundreds of millions of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Thankfully, Earth is not destined to end up like the planet Uranus, forever spinning on its side. Two centuries of frantic dam-building (about 7,000 ...