An old, unused dam was demolished last week along a tributary of the Applegate River in Josephine County, Ore., the latest barrier to fall in an ongoing, decades-long effort to improve fish passage ...

Environmental groups backed by Northwest states and four Lower Columbia River tribes are moving to lift a pause on litigation after the Trump administration withdrew from a “historic” deal. The ...

The possibility of removing four Snake River dams — Ice Harbor Dam, Lower Monumental Dam, Little Goose Dam and Lower Granite Dam — has long been a contentious one that has generally split along party ...

After an uphill two-decade-long struggle in one of the nation’s most contentious watersheds, campaigners in the Klamath River Basin moved to the brink of a momentous, well-deserved victory Tuesday.

Two decades ago, when the Klamath River basin was considered the most embattled watershed in the country, the idea of removing the river’s four hydroelectric dams was considered laughable. Yet on ...

KLAMATH, Calif. — The dams are coming down. After decades of planning, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has unanimously approved decommissioning four hydroelectric dams on the Lower Klamath ...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources won't reconsider the tailings dam permits issued late last year to PolyMet, denying a request by the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa ...

Rapid hydroelectric dam expansion in the Amazon poses a serious threat to Earth's largest and most biodiverse river basin. There are 158 dams in the Amazon River basin, with another 351 proposed; ...

Last June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates a series of dams in Oregon’s Willamette River Basin, missed a deadline set by Congress to produce a report on how the dams are affecting ...

Northwest states, tribes and environmental groups are moving to restart litigation against the federal government over its hydroelectric dam operations in the Columbia River Basin that have harmed ...