On the night of 3 October 2023, a ridge of frozen rock and other debris on the side of the South Lhonak glacier – called a “lateral moraine” – collapsed into the glacial lake. This set off a ...

In announcing a $35 billion program to bring inexpensive solar power to some 300 million Africans, officials left out two words: climate change.

Vale S.A., one of the world's largest mining companies with a market capitalization of $38.68 billion, continues to navigate a complex global market environment as it enters 2025. The Brazilian mining ...

The world endured three of its top-20 costliest disasters on record in 2024, its fifth-deadliest wildfire, and a record three ...

A year after Panamanians united to close a copper mine, the foreign company behind it is pushing back and calling for Trump to intervene.

The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

By embarking on building a super-dam, the largest ever conceived, in the seismically active Sino-Indian border region, China ...

For all this "dam for a dam" water war, relations between the two nations along their disputed Himalayan border are not ...

After Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu has raised concern about China's plan to construct the largest hydropower dam in eastern Tibet ...

China has tried to reassure India over its plans for a mega dam in the Tibetan Plateau, which has prompted fears it will cause water shortages and damage the environment, by saying it will not try ...