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The silent failure of America's aging dams

America's dams are currently averaging 64 years old, and most of us don't give them a second thought until something goes ...
While the seven Colorado River Basin states try to reach agreement over how to divvy up diminishing flows in the Colorado River, another crisis lies in the design of Glen Canyon Dam, which is ...
This dam has stood bone-dry for over a century, but now it is just centimetres from overflowing and thousands of people have ...
This is the second in a series of stories highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Teton Dam Disaster. Read our first installment here. IDAHO FALLS – Richard Robison was 13 when he saw the collapse of ...
LONDON -- A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil's worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a ...
This is the Mullaperiyar Dam. It has been around since well before your grandparents were born. And it could fail at any moment now. What could cause the dam to collapse? How quickly would this lead ...
REXBURG — Don Ellis overlooked the Teton River as he watched a wall of water break through the newly-completed Teton Dam. It was 11:55 a.m. on June 5, 1976, and the local radio personality was ...
BHP (BHP) -3.2% pre-market Friday after the English High Court ruled it is liable for the deadly collapse of a tailings dam in Brazil 10 years ago. More than 600,000 Brazilians, several local ...