Energy Source Wind farms and hydroelectric dams stand as giants in the realm of renewable energy, each harnessing natural ...

Updated Oct. 15 at 1:29 p.m. A colossal dam is near completion on Ethiopia’s stretch of the Nile, a project so large that it promises to set the country on a path to industrialization that could ...

Since 1950, the number of large dams has climbed from 5,000 to more than 45,000—an average construction rate of two large dams per day for half a century. Globally, 364 large water-transfer ...

It's now one 31 federal dams whose hydropower is marketed by BPA. The Bonneville Power Administration was born out of the New Deal, an era of large-scale public works projects that created ...

Brazil has flooded large swaths of the Amazon for hydro dams, despite opposition from Indigenous peoples, environmentalists and others. The country gets 70 percent of its electricity from hydropower.