China has begun work on what could become the world’s most powerful hydropower station, deep in the Tibetan plateau, a move ...

Investment in infrastructure is likely to continue but structural reforms needed to unleash consumer spending, analyst says.

Every hydropower plant follows the same physics lesson you’d see in a high school lab. Water stored at a height holds ...

China's Three Gorges Dam was built to protect more than 360 million people from devastating floods that occur almost every 10 years. Its construction was planned at the beginning of the last century, ...

Beijing’s Brahmaputra super-dam project will have environmental, geopolitical and hydrological consequences across Asia and ...

A huge reservoir nestling in the heart of the Three Gorges Dam is to blame for the disruptive patterns in Earth's rotation.

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China has started building a mega-dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet, which could become the world’s largest source of hydroelectric power when completed, according to Chinese officials. The ...

The project is set to provide energy to millions in the region but is seen by Cairo as an existential threat that endangers ...