The theory behind hydropower is very simple: water obeys gravity and imparts the gained kinetic energy onto a turbine, which subsequently drives a generator. The devil here is, of course, in all the ...

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we learn how hydro dam turbines kill migrating eels and check out technology ...

An expert team spent days trying to find six men who were trapped underground after catastrophic floods, as families clung to fading hopes. By Hannah Beech, Sajal Pradhan and Binod Ghimire Rescuers ...

Deep inside the world’s hydropower plants, enormous turbine units spin day and night under punishing conditions, their health ...