dams

Time is running out for the world’s great rivers

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Overfishing, industrial pollution and dams are squeezing life from once revered waterways that have sustained civilisations for centuries

A Chinook helicopter prepares to drop sandbags onto the dam wall at the Toddbrook reservoir last week (Getty)

Dams, lives and statistics: the worst dam collapses in Britain

10 August 2019 9:00 am

Dams, lives and statistics The town of Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, was evacuated after heavy rainfall caused the partial collapse of…