MOSCOW – Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia‘s border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to evacuate, local authorities said. The dam broke in the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region, less than 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) north of the border on […]
A pair of children died Thursday after a hillside near a drainage culvert for California’s Shasta Dam collapsed. The area was drenched by heavy rain. The avalanche happened sometime before 9 a.m., when the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office was called to the scene. Debris had broken off, with the rocks and kids falling down the […]
EUREKA, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects by the end of his term to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon from returning to the state’s chilly mountain streams and acting as the keystone of a complex ecosystem that sustains both economies and spiritual […]
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