Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.

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Plans for a mega dam on the Tsangpo gave way to possibility of a cascade of smaller dams years ago but there's no clarity on when - and if - these will be built. On December 25, 2024, China's Xinhua ...

The Ministry was asked whether China's decision to construct a hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra river, which flows into ...

China will launch a one-kilometer-long renewable energy station into space, capable of generating in one year the equivalent ...

India has taken note of China’s announcement of a mega dam project on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo, the ...

Nearly a century later, a 1,000-metre-long spillway has been built - the biggest of its kind in the world, with a higher ...

The allure of clean energy is powerful, but for countries sharing rivers, hydropower can come with a range of hidden costs.

The $137 billion dam could produce 300 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually, three times more energy than China’s Three Gorges Dam, currently the world’s largest. India has ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam follows the engineering achievements of the Grand Coulee Dam in America. Our research explains every part of the Grand Coulee Dam and shows how its water production creates ...

Witness the unimaginable devastation as the 7,661-foot Three Gorges Dam fails, unleashing billions of cubic meters of water across China. Explore the catastrophic aftermath and its far-reaching ...