On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on Tibet’s longest river, which Beijing calls the Yarlung Zangbo.

One NASA scientist claims that the dam is so big that the mass of the water it contains would cause Earth's days to lengthen by 0.06 microseconds if it were filled. Lead scientist Long Lehao, the ...

During the last 10 years, the critics — disturbed by big dams’ huge social and environmental ... venture that would be the world’s largest dam scheme, nearly doubling the power output of China’s Three ...

Estimated $137-billion hydroelectric project, which would be three times larger than China's Three Gorges Dam, has raised ...

The dam will be built on a river in Tibet called the Yarlung Tsangpo, with construction carried out by the government-owned Power Construction Corporation of China. It will not only be one of China's ...

The project, which will generate an estimated 300 billion kilowatt hours of electricity each year, will have almost three times more installed capacity than what is now the world’s largest ...

China’s mega dam — touted to be the world’s largest — on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet close to the Indian border is a “weapon without artillery and the biggest investment in a single ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam is one of the world's largest, standing over 600 feet tall and extending for nearly 8,000 feet. The dam is so massive, it’s reputed to have slowed the Earth’s rotation.