China on Saturday started building a major dam on the Brahmaputra river in southeastern Tibet near border with India. Chinese Premier Li Qiang attended the groundbreaking ceremony, news agency AFP ...

Assam's geography makes it uniquely vulnerable. The Brahmaputra River system, one of the world's largest river basins, flows through the state carrying enormous volumes of water and sediment from the ...

NEW DELHI As China pushes ahead with its ambitious plan to build a $16.7 billion mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo, known as the Brahmaputra in India, concerns have inevitably surged about the possible ...

Warming of 1.5 °C is often portrayed as a “safe” limit but the consequences of climate change don’t distribute themselves evenly around the world. For some regions even 1.5 °C of warming will have ...

China is reportedly pressing ahead with a massive hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, a move that experts and officials warn could seriously endanger water security, ecology and ...