Martin Wieland and Trevor Matuschka, explain why the earthquake safety of dams is a key prerequisite for sustainable dams ...

Scientists found that large-scale dam building since 1835 shifted Earth's poles over a meter and significantly lowered sea ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, shows the shift happened in two phases: 1835–1954: Dams in North ...

Even passive earthen berms need maintenance, from making sure that groundhogs don’t dig burrows in the dam itself to keeping trees out of spillways, and after 60 years they may need upgrading.