Lebanon's government says a dam planned for a valley near Beirut is vital to tackle chronic water shortages, but the location on a seismic fault line has raised fears among residents.
Environment
Jun 29, 2017
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Inside a cavernous northern Utah warehouse, hydraulic engineers send water rushing down a replica of a section of a dam built out of wood, concrete and steel—trying to pinpoint what repairs will work best at the tallest ...
Engineering
Jun 26, 2017
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Hundreds of built and proposed hydroelectric dams may significantly harm life in and around the Amazon by trapping the flow of rich nutrients and modifying the climate from Central America to the Gulf of Mexico. These findings, ...
Environment
Jun 14, 2017
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Last February, record storms and snowmelt threatened to overwhelm the two spillways of California's Oroville reservoir, the tallest dam in the United States. With less than an hour's notice, nearly 200,000 people were evacuated ...
Environment
Jun 1, 2017
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Both natural and artificial beaver dams may alter stream temperatures which may benefit temperature-sensitive salmonid species, according to a study published May 10, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Nicholas Weber ...
Ecology
May 17, 2017
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Water reservoirs created by damming rivers could have significant impacts on the world's carbon cycle and climate system that aren't being accounted for, a new study concludes.
Environment
May 17, 2017
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As nearly 75 percent of the nation's largest dams approach the high maintenance years, safety and economics figure large in decisions to fix or replace. A recent study by Michigan State University (MSU) researchers makes ...
Environment
May 10, 2017
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A federal agency targeted by President Donald Trump for budget cuts next year has only about half the money needed to build a new Yellowstone River dam and a bypass channel meant to save an endangered fish, but it plans to ...
Environment
May 3, 2017
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Freshwater megafauna such as river dolphins, crocodilians and sturgeons play vital roles in their respective ecosystems. In a recent scientific publication, researchers of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland ...
Ecology
Mar 15, 2017
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Sentinel-2A takes us over part of Botswana's Central District in this false-colour image captured on 22 March 2016.
Earth Sciences
Mar 3, 2017
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