These mountains feed rivers that supply drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people along the Front Range. After the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Humanity’s impact on the planet is so immense that our engineered megastructures have altered the very rotation of the planet. A new study from ...

Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past two centuries has caused measurable ...

It began with a simple idea: hold back rivers to store water. But over nearly two centuries, this effort — multiplied across nearly 7,000 dams worldwide — has done something no one expected. It has ...

The team installed beaver-like dams across the Cache la Poudre and Willow Creek watersheds — both burned in the 2020 ...

Scientists say artificial beaver dams could help protect fish, water quality, and biodiversity as climate change reshapes ...

Research shows that dams, built with the promise of reducing flooding, can often exacerbate the problem. Gland, Switzerland - New research commissioned by WWF, the conservation organization, has ...