On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on Tibet’s longest river, which Beijing calls the Yarlung Zangbo.
China is now the world’s most dammed country, with more large dams in operation than the rest of the world combined.
Days after China said that the 6.8-magnitude earthquake did not cause any damage to dams in Tibet, it has been forced to ...
China has approved a $137,000,000,000 project to build the most powerful hydro dam - but the move has left people concerned.
But China’s Medog project on the ‘Great Bend’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo river — the upstream part of the Brahmaputra river — is ...
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 ...
Project planned for an ecologically fragile area in Tibet near contested border with India, raising environmental, security ...
Estimated $137-billion hydroelectric project, which would be three times larger than China's Three Gorges Dam, has raised ...
The Medog Dam will be built across the Brahmaputra river and is expected to generate an enormous 300 billion kilowatt-hours ...
This initiative involves deploying a massive solar array one kilometre wide in geostationary orbit, 36,000 kilometres above ...
Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this week highlights the risks from a hydropower building spree by Asian giants China and India in one of the ...
The project, referred to as the "Manhattan Project" of the energy sector, aims to collect energy from the sun in Earth's ...