Las Vegas has now gone 212 days without rain, and all of Clark County is under either extreme or exceptional drought, but water levels at Lake Mead keep rising. Newsweek reached out to the National ...

THE completion, just announced, of the great concrete structure originally known as the Boulder Dam, but afterwards officially designated the Hoover Dam, across the Colorado River in Black Canyon ...

The new report from nonprofit group Tell The Dam Truth estimates the full lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by Glen Canyon and Hoover dams are equal to the average yearly emissions from ...

For citizens shaken by the tumultuous effects of the Great Depression, the Hoover Dam ... in a dry and barren spot called Ragtown. Ila Clements-Davey, the daughter of a dam worker, recalls the ...

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...

For citizens shaken by the tumultuous effects of the Great Depression, the Hoover Dam ... in a dry and barren spot called Ragtown. Ila Clements-Davey, the daughter of a dam worker, recalls the ...