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 ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced over the weekend that construction had begun on a megadam on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo river. Just last year, Chinese ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Aerial view of a section of the Yarlung Tsangpo river. | Credit: Li Lin / China News Service / ...

China’s Banqiao Dam was hailed as indestructible, built to resist a 10,000-year flood. When Supertyphoon Nina struck, it collapsed. This documentary reveals the disaster and the cover-up.

On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam -- India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water. India ...

China has begun construction on the world's largest hydropower dam, a project so massive that Premier Li Qiang called it the "project of the century." But the dam could also create a big problem for ...