A push notification news alert on his phone, then images of the deluge—that’s how Heorhiy Veremiychyk learned of the disaster. With water pouring through the stricken Kakhovka Dam in the Kherson ...

Fifty years after the failure of the Teton Dam, Richard Robison is working to preserve as many stories from the disaster as ...

It was June 5, 1976, whe a dam on the Teton River collapsed, sending a torrent of water into the Idaho towns below. “It was ...

Fifty years after the Teton Dam collapsed, Vincent Poxleitner still remembers the sound of the water, the destruction left ...

Soledad Luna was at home asleep when the St. Francis Dam collapsed, minutes before midnight on Monday, March 12, 1928. She had started that morning like so many Mondays before it, pumping water ...

Recent heavy downpours in the Lower Volta area of Ghana led to the worst flooding in the region’s history. The flooding was caused by a spillage (a deliberate release of water) from the Akosombo Dam, ...

One of Ukraine’s worst ecological disasters in recent years is now the site of a remarkable natural transformation, according to ecologists. The Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper River in Ukraine’s ...

After a recent dam disaster, Nigerian officials blamed God, climate change and poor people. But experts had warned the dam was at risk well before it collapsed. The officials did nothing. After a ...

Community members, elected officials, water managers, and federal representatives gathered on Friday to officially ...

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The Nova Kakhovka dam breach comes amid months of buildup to Ukraine's counteroffensive, a phase of the war that many see as potentially pivotal in Kyiv's pursuit of victory. Ukraine accused Russian ...

Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad today described the Tipaimukh Dam on the Barak River in India’s Manipur state as “a disaster of our own making”, claiming that the neighbouring country moved ...