Even when up and running at full speed, hydropower isn’t carbon neutral. Reservoirs of all sorts are sources of the potent greenhouse-gas methane. The gas is produced by decomposing organic material ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Since 2014 NorthWestern Energy (NWE) has owned nine hydroelectric dams: Seven on the Missouri ...

Switching from hydropower to fossil fuels during periods of drought has cost Western U.S. states about $20 billion over the past two decades, according to new findings from Stanford University ...

In a new report, the World Wildlife Fund claims that dam developments, often hailed as an economic boon, could end up weighing down economic growth. The rapid expansion of hydropower dam developments ...

For most of Joey Owle’s life, the Ela Dam was merely part of the landscape—just another feature of the Oconaluftee River as it runs through Whittier, North Carolina. Owle grew up about five miles from ...

Nepal’s private hydropower developers await the full text of a Supreme Court verdict that will decide the fate of infrastructure, such as dams and transmission lines, inside the nation’s natural ...