Experts suspect an explosion collapsed the dam on the Dnipro River. Kyiv and Moscow blamed each other, and residents downstream were forced to evacuate to escape the cascading waves. By Andrew E.

Downstream, houses, businesses, and farmland are drowning in the floodwaters unleashed by the destroyed dam. Thousands of people and animals alike have been forced to abandon their homes.

In Blairsville, up the Conemaugh River from the dam, 4.7 inches of rain was measured, according to the weather service. The Conemaugh River Lake’s depth increased to 68 feet. That’s 58 feet ...

The Nova Kakhovka dam, a decades-old, Soviet-era hydroelectric facility spanning the mighty Dnieper River in southern Ukraine, was breached sometime overnight on June 6. The breach sent torrents ...

On Wednesday, authorities alerted the communities that are downstream of the Quemahoning Dam to use caution, particularly those residents near the Stonycreek, Little Conemaugh and Conemaugh rivers.

After drenching rain soaked the region this week, the Conemaugh River Lake near Saltsburg was 57 feet above normal on Thursday, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Due to the volume of ...

Videos posted on social media of the destroyed Kakhovka dam appear to show some nearby islands already underwater. The hydroelectric dam sits on the Dnipro River and has long been speculated to be ...

Thousands of civilians in southern Ukraine are being evacuated after a section of the Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed early Tuesday, unleashing floodwaters from a reservoir nearly the size of Utah ...

An escalation in fighting between Ukraine and Russia and the destruction of a major dam has prompted fears of fresh disruption to global grain supplies, pushing wheat and corn prices higher.