For more than a decade, American Rivers, an environmental advocacy non-profit, has been working to remove dams along the Patapsco River. American Rivers is attempting to restore the river to what it ...

A huge amount of cargo, from coal to metals and grains, pass through the McAlpine Locks and Dam annually. A series of lock and dam systems on the Ohio River act as a "staircase," carrying barges and ...

Jp Lawrence Star Tribune May 20, 2025 May 20, 2025 MANKATO – Every few weeks, David Hruska and his family return to their old home beside the Blue Earth River. They walk along the riverbank near the ...

At the same time crews are removing the Carpentersville dam, drought conditions are affecting the Fox River in northern Kane County, and both are causing water levels in the area to be very low, ...

Over the last two years, I have traveled repeatedly to the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border to report on the dismantling of four dams. I saw crews in excavators as they clawed at the ...

For well over a century, fish making spawning runs up the Naugatuck River have had their journey cut short just 16 miles inland at the Kinneytown Dam in Ansonia. Above the dam, the river flows ...

One year after the last of four hydroelectric dams was removed from the Klamath River in northern California, tribes and environmentalists pronounced the work a success. Salmon are finding their way ...

WASHINGTON – Fifty years ago in June, elected officials gathered in Lewiston to celebrate a remarkable feat: With the completion of the Lower Snake River dams, a $1 billion project had effectively ...

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