Dams

Last year offered energy providers in the region a glimpse of the conditions they may need to adapt to as the world warms and seasonal weather patterns shift.

Experts had long said that floods posed a significant danger to two dams meant to protect nearly 90,000 people in the northeast of Libya. They repeatedly called for immediate maintenance to the two structures, located just uphill from the coastal city of Derna. But successive governments in the chaos-stricken North African nation did not react.

A United Nations body has affirmed earlier findings that Canada's largest national park remains under environmental threats from dams, oilsands development and climate change.

Scientists have found major genetic differences between groups of platypuses above and below dams, which may lead to inbreeding and reduced adaptability.

Blocking the flow of saltwater can turn coastal wetlands into methane belchers.

Once nonexistent in northwest Alaska, beavers are both benefiting from and changing a warming tundra.

Miles of new bike lanes and light rail lines just weren't enough.

The British Columbia government has not effectively overseen the safety of the 1,900 dams it regulates, says the auditor general.

With the era of building big dams over in the U.S., a growing number of existing dams are being modified to produce hydropower. These projects, advocates say, avoid the damaging impacts of new dams and could generate enough renewable electricity for several million homes.

It has become an annual ritual in Manitoba — mid-winter thoughts turn to the spring melt and whether land and communities will be threatened by rising water that comes from rivers as far away as the Rocky Mountains and South Dakota.

A conservation group is suing the British Columbia government for exempting two oilpatch dams from environmental rules years after the dams were built.

On Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, the leader of the Coalition for Quebec's Future (CAQ) published a tweet congratulating himself for having interested Wynne in his party's energy strategy.

A dam project in Almonte, O.N. has divided the community, even as the country moves toward an increased focus on renewable energy.