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

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

China's ambitious plan to build a mega-hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra river poses serious downstream implications for neighboring countries.

It has been widely reported that China has approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam in Tibet on the ...

In a remote village in Tajikistan's soaring mountains, Muslikhiddin Makhmudzoda relies on a mobile phone to light his modest ...

In the absence of a water-sharing treaty, we are in a vulnerable position, but a dam for a dam is not in our best interest ...

Amid chronic shortages, Tajikistan has promised it will end the power outages and has revived a Soviet-era mega-project to build the world’s highest dam. “We have electricity from 5 a.m. to 8 ...

In August 1975, the Banqiao Dam and 61 others throughout Henan, China collapsed following the landfall of Typhoon Nina. The dam collapse created the third-deadliest flood in history, with estimates of ...