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New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...
New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.
The village of Hoosick Falls is nearing its final victory against the companies that were accused of contaminating its water supply.
A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...
From 1835 to 1954, a surge of dam building in North America and Europe nudged the poles toward the equator. During this ...
California and six other states that use water from the Colorado River are nearing a 2026 deadline to come up with new rules for sharing shrinking supplies.
More than 90 years after it was created during the Great Depression, Lake Mead provides about 90% of the water supply in Southern Nevada. And while much of the focus is on the lake shrinking, those ...
Years of drought forced the city to rethink its water usage and, almost under the radar, to remake its identity.
Understand the impact of climate change on Hoover Dam and its hydropower generation capacity in the Colorado River basin.
Walkers can step back into Hoover Dam history while getting some of their daily steps along a mile loop along Boulder City’s historic district.