On the night of October 9, 1963, a massive landslide plunged into the reservoir behind Italy’s 264-meter-tall Vajont Dam, triggering one of Europe’s worst engineering disasters. The impact generated a ...
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What If the World's Largest Dam Failed?
A worst-case collapse of China’s Three Gorges Dam sounds like a nightmare: a wall of water racing down the Yangtze, overwhelming cities like Wuhan and Shanghai, crippling a basin that powers about 40 ...
The new year has not been kind to the hydroelectric-dam industry. On January 11th, the New York Times reported that Mosul Dam, the largest such structure in Iraq, urgently requires maintenance to ...
Seven years after a dam holding mining sludge collapsed in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, killing 272 people, mining giant Vale and its partner Itaminas are resuming operations at the very same ...
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