In 1969, the US Army Corps of Engineers dumped 27,000 tons of rock to dam the Niagara River and stop the American Falls. They were assessing a growing pile of boulders at the bottom out of concern the ...
More than a century of engineering has radically re-shaped the natural wonder—but when the U.S. had the chance to bend the American Falls to its will, it folded. Here’s why. Niagara Falls in the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Falls at Niagara Falls, N.Y., has been dried up to little more than a trickle, giving visitors an unusual chance to ...
When you think of the summer of ’69, Vietnam protests, Woodstock, landing on the moon, and Bryan Adams may come to mind. But a lot happened from an environmental perspective, too. The Cuyahoga River ...