The Federal Government has approved ₦1.5 billion for the construction of a new earth dam in Bichi Local Government Area of ...

Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past two centuries has caused measurable ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Humanity’s impact on the planet is so immense that our engineered megastructures have altered the very rotation of the planet. A new study from ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built across the world, Earth's poles have tilted by over 1 meter (3 feet). The ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift more than a meter. Reading time 2 minutes Humans have built so many dams ...

Over the past two centuries, the construction of thousands of dams has done more than just tame rivers – it has shifted the Earth’s North Pole about a meter from its original position. By storing ...

The whole point of a dam is to store water in one place, thus preventing it from spreading across a larger surface area. That's great for hydropower, recreation, and ensuring there's enough water for ...

"The first part of this work was published in 1888 as a treatise on "The design and construction of masonry dams.'"--Pref. to 4th. ed., p. [v] siris_sil_72234 ...