They may not be swimming or chewing trees, but researchers with the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State University are ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In Minnesota, beavers have long been considered a nuisance, thanks to their uncanny ability to gnaw trees and construct dams that sometimes clog culverts, raise lake levels or flood ...

A group pushing to resurrect decades-old plans to build a dam on the Duck River in Columbia, Tennessee, is working with U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles to secure congressional funding to fast-track a feasibility ...

In the wake of the deadly July 4 Guadalupe River flooding that killed 119 people in Kerr County, much attention has been focused on the lack of warning systems, which left sleeping campers, residents ...

STORY: This corner of India, wedged between China, Bhutan and Myanmar, is the front line in a water war between two Asian superpowers. Beijing and Delhi have plans for massive rival dams on a river ...

After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature. A ...

First, they were pelts, then pests. But now they are emerging as something else: climate heroes. With its chisel-like teeth, a beaver can fell a tree in a matter of hours. The animals eat the bark and ...

Three new irrigation dams have been approved in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, overlapping with two carbon credit projects The new developments join five hydropower projects that are already eating ...

Happy Dam Removal Day, the time to reflect on and celebrate the progress made in restoring our rivers and the critical biodiversity they support. To date, the damage from 9,003 European dams and weirs ...