A dam collapse in western Kenya on Monday resulted in at least 40 deaths as floodwaters engulfed houses. The collapsed dam, known as the Old Kijabe Dam, is located in the flood-prone Mai Mahiu area of the Great Rift Valley region. Ongoing
An explosion Tuesday at a hydroelectric plant in northern Italy killed at least three workers and seriously injured five others, a regional fire chief said. At least four other people were missing. The blast occurred between 100 and 200 feet below the
Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday, calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan. Protests are an unusual sight in Russia where authorities
An unlikely country could be poised to build a £64bn hydropower station, which would be the largest of its kind in the world. Within the Democratic Republic of Congo sits the Congo River, the second largest river in Africa after the Nile.
AP investigation: hundreds possibly undercounted in Kakhovka Dam disaster (Image: Getty) Russian authorities deliberately undercounted the death toll after the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam, an investigation has claimed. Kremlin officials said 59 people drowned after the catastrophic explosion in June. But
Ice-cold floodwaters caused by an overflowing glacial lake that cracked open a major dam have swept through India’s Himalayan northeast. At least 31 people in India’s mountain towns have died. About 26 relief camps were set up in Sikkim for the 22,000
Sikkim: Hundreds missing after flash flooding At least 31 people have been killed, with more than 100 more missing, after a major hydroelectric dam in India’s Himalayan northeast burst, with freezing water flooding mountain towns, washing away houses and bridges and leaving
On this day in history, July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the course of the next five years, more than 21,000 men would work tirelessly to produce what would become the largest dam of its time and one
The United Nations is accusing Russia of denying access to aid workers who want to help people “affected by the devastating destruction of the Kakhovka Dam” in Ukraine. In a statement, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine Denise Brown said the agency has
The Mokri Yaly River dam is less than 10 miles south of the advancing Ukrainian troops (Image: GOOGLE MAPS ) Retreating Russian forces have destroyed another dam just a week after the explosion at the Kakhovka hydroelectric station left hundreds of thousands