There be dragons—657 of them in one area alone, plus nine emerging from a stone wall. Revered avatars of Hakka culture, the mythological creatures’ hold on local beliefs threatened to upend the plans ...

In recent years, as a result of increasingly intensive rainfall events, the associated water erosion and corrosion have led to the increase in breach risk of aging dams in the United States. In this ...

Ethiopia has been booming with active construction of dams within the past few decades for different infrastructural needs, but has never experienced demolition or failure of dams in its history; ...

RAS is mutated in nearly 20% of human cancers and has few direct, efficacious inhibitors. Here, we developed a synthetic protein, JAM20, to discover potential regions on RAS that may be used for ...

Bangladesh is prone to severe flooding as being located at the confluence of three mighty rivers named the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna. As a consequence, river flooding and erosion are common ...

How do reservoir sedimentation and appropriate management techniques affect operations of dams and hydroelectric facilities? The authors cover the topic and provide illustrative case studies, ...

Digital elevation models (DEMs) are essential data sets for disaster risk management and humanitarian relief services as well as many environmental process models. At present, on the one hand, ...

Modification of the previously existing emergency spillway structure at Douglas dam, located in the city of Fort Collins in Colorado, US, was completed as part of the Dry Creek Drainage Improvement ...