Residents who evacuated their homes Tuesday amid flooding were allowed to return after an inspection determined the Nashville Reservoir dam in Illinois was safe, authorities said. Two failures of the ...

Nine of history's most catastrophic dam collapses reveal a devastating pattern of ignored warnings, corporate greed, and political cover-ups that cost hundreds of thousands of lives. From Brazil's ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection significantly escalated safety directives at Lake Wynonah, officially declaring the community’s primary dam “unsafe.” Constructed in 1971, the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The state of Wisconsin has been experiencing a rapid increase in dam ...

After extensive rain on Monday night, a Nashville, Illinois, dam overtopped forcing the evacuation of approximately 200 people who live downstream. First responders rescued at least one resident from ...

The report will be submitted to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) for review.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of dams in the United States at risk of overtopping is increasing, "threatening their structural integrity and ...

Storms with heavy rains and tornadoes rattled Illinois, overtopping a dam Tuesday in a southern part of the state and forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes. Water overtopped a dam near Nashville, ...

Since 2000, more dams have failed in Wisconsin than in almost any other state, a new report has found, raising questions about how they will fare under more frequent and severe rain events driven by ...

A new study reveals that the devastating 2023 flood in Derna, Libya, was not merely the result of extreme rainfall but was drastically intensified by a major design shortcoming and its resulting ...