People swim and play in the Big River at Rockford Park on Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Jefferson County where water funneled through an opening in a former dam creates dangerous currents. Most of the ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

In the wake of the deadly July 4 Guadalupe River flooding that killed 119 people in Kerr County, much attention has been focused on the lack of warning systems, which left sleeping campers, residents ...

October 2025 marks the one-year anniversary of the full removal of the dams on the Klamath River watershed. This is the biggest dam removal project in the world to date, taking down four dams in ...

It’s been a little more than a year since four dams on the Klamath River came down — the biggest river restoration project in U.S. history. In that time, tribal, state, nonprofit and federal ...

During a virtual press conference Oct. 9, Klamath River scientists announced that a year after the last of the dams were removed, river health has begun to bounce back. With salmon swimming upstream, ...

This month marks the one-year anniversary of dam removal along the lower Klamath River, the culmination of what has been described as “the world’s biggest dam removal project.” During a virtual news ...

Lakes Mead and Powell, the largest reservoirs on the Colorado River, do not just store water. Their dams, Hoover and Glen Canyon, also generate electricity. This hydropower drives irrigation pumps and ...

Swansea voters will have the chance to approve a study and $49,500 federal grant match at the Oct. 27 Special Town Meeting. The study, if funded, will provide insights into potentially removing the ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency, the Nature Conservancy and other partners have broken ground on a project aimed at restoring the natural flow of the Elk River.

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 ...

The inauguration of Cameroon’s Nachtigal dam has boosted the country’s electricity supply. The dam’s construction has also led to loss of livelihoods for fishers and sand miners on the Sanaga River ...