Across the world, large dams stand as some of humanity’s most ambitious engineering achievements. They are built not only to generate electricity, but to control floods, support agriculture, and ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — With great fanfare Ethiopia inaugurated its controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Tuesday – the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa but one that's divided the region ...

The new year has not been kind to the hydroelectric-dam industry. On January 11th, the New York Times reported that Mosul Dam, the largest such structure in Iraq, urgently requires maintenance to ...

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Barnaby Joseph Dye has received multilple grants and a scholarship from the UK's Research Councils (mainly Economic and Social Science Research Council) and the British Academy. He is a member of the ...

October 2025 marks the one-year anniversary of the full removal of the dams on the Klamath River watershed. This is the biggest dam removal project in the world to date, taking down four dams in ...