While the Dam has brought benefits such as reliable energy and flood management, it has come at a significant cost. The construction displaced millions of people and submerged vast areas of land, ...

As China counts the costs of its most punishing flood season in more than three decades, the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river ...

Tibet project estimated at 60GW would be nearly three times the size of China's Three Gorges Dam, pictured above ... raises concerns about the risks of flooding and structural collapse ...

The Three Gorges Dam in central China’s Hubei province ... which starts in Tibet, during flood season. The building of a dam near the border definitely poses a challenge for India, said Dr ...

On December 25, the People’s Republic of China approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung ...

NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. The announced cost is $137 billion. The Economist calls the new dam “the world’s most expensive infrastructure project.” And perhaps it is ...

An earthquake could destroy the dam and cause catastrophic flooding. In fact, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake ... the form of one giant wall built to hold water behind it, like Three Gorges or the Hoover ...

The Three Gorges Dam cost £29 billion in 2008 as it resettled 1.4 million people. Despite officials claiming the project will not significantly affect the environment or water supplies ...

China's ambitious engineers are at it again, not satisfied with the already colossal Three Gorges Dam, which towers at over 600 feet and stretches nearly 8,000 feet wide. This engineering marvel ...

China has proposed an ambitious plan to build a 1km-wide solar power plant in Earth-geostationary orbit 36,000 km above sea ...

Weeks after announcing plans to construct the world's largest dam, China has now unveiled another ambitious project intending to harness solar power. Calling it "another Three Gorges Dam project ...