The Three Gorges Dam in China is the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, a monumental engineering feat that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on Tibet’s longest river, which Beijing calls the Yarlung Zangbo. The project, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beijing's approval of a controversial mega dam in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which flows from Tibet ...

As Beijing races ahead with the world’s largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo, India faces new vulnerabilities in ...

China called the Banqiao Dam strong enough for a 10,000-year flood. Then Super Typhoon Nina hit in 1975, the dam burst, and ...

Inland remnants of tropical cyclones are notorious rainfall flood producers, as the recent tragedy in Texas in early July 2025 illustrated. But on Aug. 7, 1975, 50 years ago today, one of the world's ...

China’s intentions to dam the Yarlung Tsangpo River in eastern Tibet have been documented for well over a decade, with various iterations of the project proposal holding different timelines, costs, ...

Critics of the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort initiative applauded the delay, which some say could be a sign that the Green Dam is a goner. In May, China's Ministry of Industry and Information ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. China has approved the construction of a hydropower dam in Tibet that ...

China has begun construction on what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, a facility with a projected annual generation capacity of 300 billion kWh of electricity—nearly three times the ...

Tibet project estimated at 60GW would be nearly three times the size of China's Three Gorges Dam, pictured above, which began operating in 2006. Photo: "ThreeGorgesDam-China2009" by Le Grand Portage ...

China has approved the construction of a huge hydroelectric dam in Tibet, which would be the world’s largest hydropower plant with triple the capacity of the current biggest operational project, the ...