Explore the 25 Tallest Dams In The World! Discover these incredible engineering marvels, their record-breaking heights, ...

The Klamath River Renewal Corporation removed four dams in California and Oregon. The results were even better than scientists anticipated.

Eighty-six years after America's worst civil engineering disaster, the lessons appear painfully obvious. Engineers now know that each big project has its own set of unique challenges; there's no ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S., has made national ...

Fatih Çevik, general manager of Limak Construction, based in Ankara, Turkey, has had a longstanding affection for the Çoruh River in the country’s mountainous northeastern region, which he describes ...

New research suggests that the two large structures near the Red Pyramid site at Dahshur, Egypt, are parts of an ancient dam, not stone transport ramps, which is what was previously believed. This ...

Old Mission Dam tells the story of San Diego’s early mission era, showcasing a 200-year-old engineering project.

Standing in the brutal heat of the black canyon, Hoover Dam on the great Colorado river, was not just a construction project, it was a landmark example that redefined engineering. One of the most ...

Study by civil engineers finds that the history of the Jagersfontein dam deviates from best engineering practice. On 11 September 2022, a diamond mine waste storage facility, known as a tailings dam, ...

Migratory fish along Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River have faced the same problem for more than one hundred years. American shad and river herring are two species that migrate upstream as part of ...

For our nations’ first engineering force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, dams and the massive reservoirs of fresh water they preserve, have become an essential element of its overall mission. Allen ...

Growing up, we got to play with all kinds of things in miniature. Cars, horses, little LEGO houses, the lot. What we didn’t get is a serious education with miniature-sized dams. This recreation of the ...