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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

When he wasn’t in Haiti, Farmer frequently gave speeches, lots of them, and invariably he mentioned the dam we were now staring at.

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

Then dams and expanding farmlands dried it up and turned it into a patchwork of fields, roads and towns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

The aqueduct seemed to make the city’s founding river not just obsolete but dangerous, so construction began on catch basins, dams and reservoirs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The Himalayas have already seen devastating examples of what can happen when glacial lakes burst their natural dams.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The roiling mass of water, unleashed by a glacial collapse, swept down the Trishuli river, devastating a roughly 40-mile corridor of dams that were supposed to drive economic growth for mountainous Nepal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Ophie and her mother had gone to see one of the Allegheny River’s many dams after they’d arrived, a trip to sightsee a bit in their new home.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

According to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, a dammed lake upstream of the Gyirong Port in Tibet has begun overflowing, forcing a temporary suspension of rescue operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Scientists have warned that Himalayan glaciers are melting because of climate change and creating glacial lakes, often dammed by loose rock and debris, which makes them unstable and prone to bursting their banks.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024

Over the last 100 years, rivers across the Central Valley were dammed to provide irrigation for farms, blocking salmon from their natural habitats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

It is dammed by a massive ridge of rubble that the glacier piled up over thousands of years.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024

They must have grown on top of a hill before the river was dammed.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

Organisers said the chances of seeing the nocturnal animals during the day would be slim but added the tours would offer a first hand look at the animals' damming and digging skills.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

Andrew Law, a sociologist at Newcastle University in the U.K., has used lidar mapping to digitally preserve structures along China’s Yangtze River that were threatened or wiped out by extensive damming.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2025

I dropped the crushed pods into the pot, filled it with water, and waited for it to finish damming.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram