Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, a prehistoric inland sea, spread across the continent with a reach that ...

A professor at UC San Diego has made a surprising and dangerous discovery: 90% of freshwater fish in the Southern California ...

The Pacific Ocean fog hung densely over the narrow mouth of the Klamath River in this coastal rainforest in northern ...

“The transformation of the Alcoa Power Dam into an earthen dam led by a North Country-based contractor ... Pittsburgh Reduction company, it was the largest concrete structure in the world.

This meaningful project honors our region’s industrial legacy while contributing to the beauty and integrity of our natural surroundings,” said NYPA Trustee and North Country resident Cecily Morris.

In 2014, a dam at the Mount Polley copper and gold mine breached, sending 25 million cubic metres of mine waste downriver in the largest disaster of its kind ever seen in North America.BC ...

The dam at the Mount Polley gold and copper ... and long-lasting environmental damages in what would become North America’s biggest such failure on record. A number of regulatory actions followed.

(AP Photos/Martha Bellisle) The Grand Coulee Dam, the largest hydropower generator in North America is located in Coulee Dam, Wash., is run by the Bureau of Reclamation, is shown near the Columbia ...

For many people, the "King" Columbia River begins and ends with the Grand Coulee Dam, the iconic 1930s project ... It is the greatest river in North America that flows West, fed by ice, snowmelt ...

The new dam will dwarf the biggest dam in the world today, China’s own Three Gorges Dam, whose reservoir is longer than the largest of North America’s Great Lakes. When completed, the super-dam in ...