dam
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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
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
The Ecuadorian government launched legal proceedings against Sinohydro in 2021 due to cracks appearing in the dam and other technical failures.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
I pushed Izio into some deep, deep place inside me and built a dam across my sadness.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
Scientists recently found that, since the dams came down, salmon have rapidly returned to spawn upstream, reoccupying 88% of their historical areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
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 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
Floods tore through mountain districts, destroying roads, bridges and multiple hydropower dams that day.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Nathan went to break the dams and I with him and with me our children, sunken-eyed, noisy as they had not been for many days at the thought of the feast, carrying nets and baskets.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
"The sheer wave of debris suggests there could have been a landslide first; the water built up, dammed the river, and then it burst in one huge great flood," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Late one night in October 2023, part of the shelf of rocks and ice that dammed the lake in northeast India collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
A creek had been dammed, creating ponds that slowed the flow of water so the surrounding earth had more time to sop it up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
The process dirtied lakes, cut down forests and dammed up rivers.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 2024
The words spill out of me, a tumbling river I've dammed up for too long.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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
The creation of the reservoir, which involved damming the Gwash valley near Empingham, was finished in 1976 and flooding took a further three years, Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust said.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
When beavers move into a stream or creek and begin building their damming complexes, the ponds and wetlands they create are an antidote to all these problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
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
And he pushed the King out of the door, damming it in his face.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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