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Nations around the world are increasingly aware of climate change impacts on the water and hydropower sectors, raising concerns about the structural and operational safety of existing and new dams and ...

Federal regulators say the high-hazard Upper Peninsula dam has flouted safety orders and lost control of key lands, setting ...

An interim report from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials reports that a clear factor in the failures of two dams built in the 1920s was static liquefaction (flow) instability of saturated, ...

The arduous task of cleaning up from catastrophic flooding is underway across the Northeast after storms stretched the region’s flood control systems nearly to the breaking point. Managing these flood ...

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Yida Zhang is deeply passionate about assessing the stability of dams, but his approach is unconventional. Rather than studying the large aging structures, his research zeroes in on the tiny sand ...

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Eliminating obsolete or unsafe dams could help bolster community safety amid climate-induced weather extremes, watershed experts are recommending. Storms and floods have intensified in both frequency ...

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