Another building near the Rapidan Dam in Mankato has been impacted by the recent flooding. The Rapidan Dam Store building has been taken down and removed from the riverbank due to concerns that it ...

Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past two centuries has caused measurable ...

BLUE EARTH COUNTY, Minn. — Blue Earth County officials moved to purchase and demolish the Rapidan Dam Store building due to concerns of continuing soil erosion. The officials initially brought a ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift more than a meter. Reading time 2 minutes Humans have built so many dams ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built across the world, Earth's poles have tilted by over 1 meter (3 feet). The ...

Over the past two centuries, the construction of thousands of dams has done more than just tame rivers – it has shifted the Earth’s North Pole about a meter from its original position. By storing ...

BLUE EARTH COUNTY, Minn. — Officials in southern Minnesota confirm a "partial failure" has occurred at the site of the Rapidan Dam on the Blue Earth River south of Mankato. In a news release Monday ...

It began with a simple idea: hold back rivers to store water. But over nearly two centuries, this effort — multiplied across nearly 7,000 dams worldwide — has done something no one expected. It has ...

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