China’s next mega-dam could dwarf even Three Gorges, rising in one of the most extreme river systems on Earth. The project promises enormous hydropower, but its location on the Tibetan Plateau brings ...

India fears a planned Chinese mega-dam in Tibet will reduce water flows on a major river by up to 85% during the dry season, ...

China is constructing a massive hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River. This project raises significant water security and strategic concerns for India. Experts warn of potential impacts on ...

China’s supremely ambitious plan to dam the Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra river has run into a problem with a recent report saying the dam area sits above a huge geological fault ...

One giant dam has already nudged the way our planet turns. When the enormous Three Gorges Dam reservoir in China filled with ...

The Medog Hydropower Project faces the risk of structural failure because it is being built on an active seismic zone in southern Tibet that is prone to ear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funding calls had gone out since the project was launched in 2011, with the government also issuing bonds to fund construction of ...

On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam—India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water. India says ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: This corner of India, wedged between China, Bhutan and Myanmar, is the front line in a water war between two Asian ...

China's Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project is built over an active fault line called Paizhen Fault The fault has been active since the Pleistocene and could threaten dam and infrastructure stability ...

New Delhi has raised concerns over Beijing’s plan to build what would be the world’s largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung ...

India says the proposed new mega-dam could counteract rival China’s building of a likely record-breaking dam upstream in Tibet by stockpiling water and guarding ...