The devastation in Texas Hill Country isn't the first time Americans have mourned the victims of deadly floodwaters.

Teton Dam (Idaho), June 5, 1976 Wiping out the small Idaho towns of Teton, Newdale and Sugar City, a 15-foot wave also hit a lumber yard in Rexburg, releasing a deadly tangle of logs.

The Hoover Dam is the most famous such example in North America, and for good reason. Built between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression, the project was truly a feat of engineering for the time.

Dams and reservoirs have profound environmental effects that are coming under intense scrutiny, with one prominent national group, American Rivers, pushing hard — and successfully — for dam ...

American dams are being demolished. And nature is pushing that along The Iron Gate Dam, one of four dams that will be removed from the Klamath River near the Oregon-California border by the end of ...

Before a N.C. dam is removed, biologists search for America’s largest salamander Before old mill dams are demolished in the North Carolina mountains, ...