THEcomplete failure of the Austin dam, with its resultant loss of property and human life ... about 8,000 cubic yards were excavated, and an earth embankment was laid against the upstream face ...

At least 55 died, 74 left missing and the 1200-megawatt Teesta-III hydropower dam was destroyed. In October 2023, a multi-hazard cascade in the Sikkim Himalayas was triggered when earth and stones ...

Villagers wait to board an overcrowded boat in Lambara village, Sokoto state, north-west Nigeria. The state has been affected ...

“We’ve been flying drones repeatedly on swaths upstream and downstream, looking at the changes in the river since the dam ...

Documenting and researching this type of dam failure is a way for researchers to help get data out to public officials and ...

Hazaribag: Ichak police recovered a human skeleton on Tuesday found in a sack at Lotwa Dam near the Hazaribag National Park, police said on Wednesday. The sack was discovered wedged between two ...

Tamil Nadu has sought the court to direct Kerala to allow Tamil Nadu to conduct the remaining strengthening works on the baby and earth dams; the grouting of the main dam; and permission to cut 15 ...

The construction of the Balbina hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon led to the loss of seven endemic fish species in ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival ... rock weathering or other factors didn’t have enough effect to remove ...

his human victims dead but untouched. Most Nile crocodiles are opportunistic hunters, taking down whatever comes within striking distance. But what sets Gustave apart is not just his enormous size ...

The excavation, part of the Chattogram Development Authority's (CDA) waterlogging mitigation project, has inadvertently created a new problem: a temporary earth dam, built in the canal to ...

Those were the headlines for April 8, 1900 — as reimagined "in the style of the day" for the American-Statesman on April 8, 1976 — when the Austin Dam, which supplied the city with almost all ...