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 ...

Without greater transparency on the part of China and cooperative frameworks, this dam could become a flashpoint in an ...

India has voiced concern about Beijing’s plan to build a dam in Tibet that is three times larger than China’s Three Gorges, currently the world’s largest hydropower facility.

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 ...

This is the transcript of ThePrint CutTheClutter Episode 1585, published on 10 January 2025, looking at China’s plan to build ...

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 ...

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

The power output of this project is two and half times the output of the Four Gorges Dam, along the river ... It would result in unprecedented flooding and the authorities would be forced ...

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, ...

It is projected to generate nearly 300 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually, dwarfing the capacity of China’s current record-holder, the Three Gorges ... dam, as people fear displacement ...

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