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What record-low water levels at the Hoover Dam reservoir look like from space
The US’s largest water reservoir, Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam, is in very, very bad shape. How bad is it? New satellite images from NASA show just how…
New mathematical method aids water prospecting and dam security
Healthy dam. Credit: Pavel Odinev/Skoltech
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This Dam Simple Trick Is a Big Green Energy Win
Some countries are already making use of this potential. Since 2000, 36 dams in the US have been retrofitted with turbines, adding more than 500 megawatts of…
The Dam Is Breaking on Vaccine Mandates
It didn’t need to be this way. This spring, as people lined up for newly available, miraculously effective Covid-19 vaccines, it was easy to imagine a direct…
World’s second-largest hydropower dam goes online in China
The dam spans a deep, narrow gorge on the upper section of the Yangtze, China's…