Lake Mead falls to lowest level since Hoover Dam's construction as "apocalyptic" heatwave and drought hit parts of US. Do you still have to pay your mortgage if your house burns down? Some ...

In the worst mining disaster in American history ... Just four days earlier, a federal mine inspector had declared the dam "satisfactory". At the Union Oil Company Refinery, a worker notices ...

Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. Mark Benedict Barry Library of Congress Protectionism doesn’t work ...

The declaration came several days after Russian President Vladimir Putin called the oil spill an “ecological disaster.” The oil continues to surface days after the spillages On Wednesday ...

A dam for a dam will make the entire Himalayan riparian/climatic systems run dry and turn it into a disaster-scape for its communities. Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman is a Visiting Associate Fellow at the ...

Gwen Van Dam, a veteran character actress of seven decades whose 140 credits spanned television, film and the Los Angeles stage, died Dec. 19 at her home in West LA. She was 96. Per previous ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Van Dam, who compiled about 140 acting credits on IMDb, died Dec. 19 at her home in West Los Angeles after a recurrence of cancer, her son, Dirk Smillie, told The ...

“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!” he declared on social media last week. But by many traditional metrics, the America that Mr. Trump will inherit from President ...

On completion, the 60,000 MW project will have the capacity to produce three times the amount of electricity as the world’s largest hydro project, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze in central China.

The Hoover Dam that sits on the Nevada/Arizona border produces a mere 4.2 TWh, comparatively. The Yarlung Zangbo River, which later turns into the Brahmaputra when it enters India, is one of the ...

"The Chinese side has been urged to ensure that the interests of downstream states of the Brahmaputra are not harmed by activities in upstream areas," he added.

China has approved the construction of a hydropower dam in Tibet that is set to be the largest of its kind in the world once complete. The 300 billion kWh dam will run along 31 miles of the ...