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With 65 miles of lush trails, a historic mission dam and the highest mountain in the city of San Diego, Mission Trails Regional Park is worth exploring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

On Aug. 26, the alert mechanism failed again and the dam was dashed to pieces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

That happened back in 2023, after nine years of campaigning, and halted the construction of a hydropower dam that would have damaged the ecosystem.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Nepal has almost no large reservoirs capable of doing this: its main storage dam, Kulekhani, holds less than a tenth of a cubic kilometre, "so there's nothing to release", says Sanyal.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Farmer didn’t dare go back by the same route, on foot over the dam.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

In 2024, crews finished demolishing four dams on the Klamath River, completing the largest dam removal effort in U.S. history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Scott River flows into the Klamath downstream from where the dams stood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

As semi-aquatic mammals, beavers are known for building dams that create ponds and wetlands.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

More than 2,000 hydropower workers were scattered across dams, riverside camps, underground power houses and miles-long tunnels when the flood hit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Land has been cut by roads, railways, and dams into smaller, isolated spaces.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

The deadly flash flood in Nepal on Wednesday likely was caused by a huge chunk of a glacier that broke off and temporarily dammed a river, according to preliminary investigations by scientists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

These lakes are prone to failing because they are precariously dammed by walls made of frozen earth, rocks and ice created by the movement of a glacier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Some Alaskans are evacuating their homes as meltwater escapes a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier - raising fears of record-breaking flooding in the US state's capital city.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

Stained glass windows on the west side of the church, in the direct path of the storm, were shattered, allowing rain inside in addition to dammed stormwater forced into the building, Glenn said.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

This vast stream of life, dammed and muddied, is trying to sweep toward that fulfilment which all of us seek so fondly, but find so impossible to put into words.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

That mass of rock and ice plunged about 800 metres onto a debris-covered glacier, before surging downhill, briefly damming the Lhende River.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

For decades, damming rivers has generated bitter fights in places around the world, and international lenders have come under pressure not to support new projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

Beaver officer Lauren Jasper said the sites were chosen because they offered strong habitat at the headwaters, good damming potential and an existing local flood risk.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

Habitat destruction, damming, and pollution have decimated local populations, such that many species are in dire need of help.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024

But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates