Large-scale infrastructure projects can profoundly affect local economies, but assessing these effects is challenging. In a new study, a researcher evaluated all large-scale hydroelectric dams built ...

After years in the wings, hydropower stepped into the spotlight in 2025. Policymakers began to value the grid-balancing power ...

Healthy mangrove stand. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 13th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E. Ezcurra at University of California, ...

Energy is vital to humanity, historically harnessed from fossil fuels like coal, natural gas, and oil, with limited use of renewable sources. Transitioning to renewables is imperative due to their ...

This video explores the potential of hydropower, examining its advantages and disadvantages amidst the rise of renewable ...

Digital condition monitoring is transforming hydropower O&M with AI-driven diagnostics, hybrid architectures, and predictive maintenance.

How market design shapes technologies’ futures, and what a genuinely hybrid storage landscape might look like by 2035 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif./BRASILIA/SHANGHAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Severe droughts are drying up rivers and reservoirs vital for the production of zero-emissions hydropower in several countries around the globe ...

A boat on the Mekong River at sunset, Laos. The Mekong supports the world's largest freshwater fishery but the proposed level of hydropower development in the Mekong basin is predicted to cut fish ...

I grew up in typically dry, inland southern California, so droughts are not entirely unexpected for me, my neighbors, or my colleagues. Since I was born in 1987, the state has endured four long ...