Killingly's Old Killingly Pond Dam is at risk of collapse due to seepage and sediment, prompting emergency actions.

The Three Gorges Dam in China is the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, a monumental engineering feat that ...

China called the Banqiao Dam strong enough for a 10,000-year flood. Then Super Typhoon Nina hit in 1975, the dam burst, and ...

Mining giant BHP loses bid to appeal over deadly dam collapse that caused country’s worst environmental disaster - The Fundao dam was jointly owned and operated by BHP and Vale's Samarco joint venture ...

The collapse of the Teton Dam spilled 80 billion gallons of water into eastern Idaho, killing 11 people and 13,000 head of livestock. Many people were made homeless by the disaster and tens of ...

Families on the North Shore of Oahu woke up before dawn Friday to emergency alerts on their phones telling them to leave their homes immediately. By mid-morning, more than 138,000 people were under ...

Honolulu officials urged residents near the Wahiawa Dam in Honolulu on Friday morning to evacuate the area immediately after a massive dam failure caused "potential life-threatening flooding of ...

Sao Paulo-- A mining dam collapsed in southeastern Brazil on Friday, inundating a nearby community in an enormous swath of reddish brown liquid waste and leaving an estimated 200 missing, according to ...