The Hálslón Reservoir is a storage reservoir in Eastern Iceland on the Jökulsá á Dal River. The reservoir stores water for use in hydroelectricity production with the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant. The ...

Hurricane Helene brought dams in North Carolina and Tennessee close to their breaking point. Many US dams are decades old and weren’t designed for the impacts of climate change. As flooding ...

East Tennessee and its mountainous terrain are a maze of rivers controlled by dams. Floods from Hurricane Helene tore through them and caused massive destruction as the water brought down roads ...

Wisconsin is seeing more frequent dam failures in another sign that the storms blowing through the state are growing stronger. Wisconsin recorded 34 dam failures from 2000 through 2023 ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The Lake Lure Dam which officials feared would fail and flood dozens of communities following Helene ...

A structural engineer assessed the Lake Lure dam Friday evening and determined its failure is not imminent, a town official said. The Lake Lure dam in western North Carolina overtopped Friday ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Historic flooding pushed Tennessee's dams to their limits but they performed as expected, according to the Tennessee Valley Authority. Friday night into Saturday morning ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is releasing a record amount of water through the spillways and power turbines of Douglas Dam, where the three rivers at the epicenter of flooding in East Tennessee ...

Frozen supermarket chain Iceland has made a major change to 53 of its UK stores ahead of a major nationwide rollout. Iceland has partnered with the food delivery service Deliveroo as part of the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – City-owned dams are getting an infusion of money for repairs and other overdue needs, including emergency plans that state safety regulators long have recommended.